The flowers are thickish, something like the pyrola, and its manner of growth resembles the hyacinth, with bell-shaped flowers clustering along the upper part of the stem, and erect, pointed leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, December 16, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
pyrola secunda (one-sided pyrola), very common, Caucomgomoc. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
Right now you can marvel at the pyrola and spotted jewelweed-such elegantly tiny flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Fort Frances Times Online -] Reference
Here I found many of my old favorites the heathworts -- kalmia, pyrola, chiogenes, huckleberry, cranberry, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
The family of the heath, cranberry, pyrola, Andromeda, and mountain-laurel -- how do these blossoms welcome their insect friends?. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
In shady corners, deeper in the wood, the fragrant pyrola lifted its scape of clustering bells, like a lily of the valley wandered to the forest. From Wordnik.com. [Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness] Reference
Among the most desolate sandhills you may find in July acres of wax-white pyrola – like lilies of the valley splashed with pink – covering the plains between the lonely ridges of harsh, grey grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing] Reference
A plain brown carpet suits it best, with a modest figure of green -- preferably of evergreen -- woven into it; a tracery of partridge-berry vine, or, it may be, of club moss, with here and there a tuft of pipsissewa and pyrola. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
Both the glossy pipsissima and the pretty spotted wintergreen, with its variegated leaves, are common here; so is the fragrant shin-leaf; and the one-flowered pyrola, rare in most parts of the country, is also found in our woods. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
On the opener spots beneath the trees the ground is covered to a depth of two or three feet with mosses of indescribable freshness and beauty, a few dwarf conifers often planted on their rich furred bosses, together with pyrola, coptis, and Solomon's-seal. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
This clear space, which is gently rounded, is bounded a few feet lower by a thick shrubbery of oaks, with maples, aspens, beeches, cherries, and occasionally a mountain-ash intermingled, among which we found the bright blueberries of the Solomon's Seal, and the fruit of the pyrola. From Wordnik.com. [Excursions] Reference
One-sided pyrola. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
Wintergreen, false, or pyrola. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference
A few ferns, aspidiums, polypodiums, with dewberry vines, coptis, pyrola, leafless huckleberry bushes, and ledum grow beneath the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
The lower are mostly alder bushes and the topmost a lavish profusion of flowering plants, chiefly cassiope, vaccinium, pyrola, erigeron, gentiana, campanula, anemone, larkspur, and columbine, with a few grasses and ferns. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
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