Wildflowers Found in Oregon

Heart-leaved Pyrola (Pink Wintergreen, Bog Wintergreen)

Pyrola asarifolia - Common, all summer, perennial, 6-18 in. Tall, erect, reddish stem from basal cluster of leathery evergreen leaves. Leaves oval to round, with tapered bases on long petioles, shiny dark green with underside often purple. Flowers on spreading stalks on top 1/2 of stem. Petals form cup, pink to dark red, with protruding downward-curving style. Grows in bogs to dry evergreen of deciduous forests, meadows, from near coast to subalpine. Native