Spotted Wintergreen (TVA, White's Creek Small Wild Area, Plants)

Spotted Wintergreen

Chimaphila maculata

Summary ⁵

Chimaphila maculata (Spotted Wintergreen, also called striped wintergreen, striped prince's pine or rheumatism root) is a small (10-25 cm tall), perennial evergreen herb native to eastern North America and Central America, from southern Quebec west to Illinois, and south to Florida and Panama.

Distribution ⁶

Global Range: Chimpahila maculata grows from Ontario and Quebec south through Florida and Mississippi and into Costa Rico. Another center ranges from Mexico south into Guatemala and Honduras.

Ecology ⁷

All three Chimaphila species are slow-growing and slow-propagating plants (Moore 1978). C. maculata tends to propagate from rhizomes, but is difficult from seed.

Economic uses ⁸

Uses: MEDICINE/DRUG

Flower visiting insects of spotted wintergreen in illinois ⁹

Chimaphila maculata (Spotted Wintergreen)
(bees suck nectar; bumblebees are the primary pollinators of the flowers; observerations are from Standley et al.)

Bees (long-tongued)
Apidae (Apinae): Apis mellifera sn (Std); Apidae (Bombini): Bombus bimaculatus sn fq (Std), Bombus perplexus sn fq (Std), Bombus vagans sn fq (Std)

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Adapted by Jonathan (JC) Carpenter from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimaphila_maculata
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