Genus
Chimaphila (Wintergreens)
Chimaphila umbellata. Photo: (c) eugenezakharov, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Chimaphila (prince’s pine or wintergreen; from Greek: cheima ‘winter’ and philos ‘lover’, hence ‘winter lover’) is a genus of five species of small, evergreen, flowering plants native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. They are classified in the family Ericaceae, but were formerly placed in the segregate family Pyrolaceae.
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