Pyrola minor L. is a plant in the Ericaceae family, order Ericales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Pyrola minor L.

Pyrola minor L.

Pyrola minor L. is a rosette-leaved sclerophyll with nodding pink flowers and 5-segmented nodding capsules.

Family
Genus
Pyrola
Order
Ericales
Class
Magnoliopsida
⚠️ Toxicity Note

Insufficient toxicity evidence; avoid direct contact and ingestion.

About Pyrola minor L.

Pyrola minor L. is a sclerophyll that produces leaves arranged in a rosette. Its simple, basal leaf blades are 2–5 cm wide, thin, and broadly elliptic with a rounded or abruptly tapering tip. The leaf stalk is usually shorter than the leaf blade. Its flowers are spherical, nodding, and 5–7 mm wide, with triangular sepals, five pale pink to rose-colored petals, and an internal gynoecium with a short style. The fruit is a nodding, 5-segmented capsule, and the gynoecium's style remains intact at the tip of the mature capsule.

Photo: (c) Иван Матершев, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Иван Матершев · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Ericales Ericaceae Pyrola

More from Ericaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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