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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Plant Height: 6 to 8 inches
Plant Spread: 12 to 36 inches
Leaves: Evergreen
Fragrant
Other: dark blue-green with white stripes along leaf veins.
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Rhizome
Edible Parts: Leaves
Eating Methods: Tea
Raw
Propagation: Other methods: Division

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Common names
  • Spotted Wintergreen
  • Striped Pipsissewa
  • Striped prince's pine
  • Striped Wintergreen

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Location: Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve at the Bethesda Road (Equestrian trail area), Southern Pines, NC.
Date: February 8, 2023
Wintergreen #181; RAB page 795, 145-1-1; AG page 322, 58-21-2, "N
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2015-06-18
Location: Aberdeen, NC (Rays Millpond)
Date: April 19, 2023
Wintergreen #181; RAB page 795, 145-1-1; AG page 322, 58-21-2, "N
Location: Fairfax, Virginia (Outdoors)
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-02-01

Photo courtesy of: Tom Potterfield

Credit: Steven J. Baskauf (http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/)

Credit: Steven J. Baskauf (http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/).
Location: Daniel Boone National Forest Ky
Date: 2015-10-29
Location: Michaux State Forest Fayetteville, PA
Date: 05/27/2021
Photo by sedumzz
Location: Bedford, Virginia
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-03-10

Date: 2005-07-07
Location: Roaring Fork Motor Trail, Gatlingburg, Tn.
Date: June 9, 2014
pretty

Date: 2005-04-23
Credit: Steven J. Baskauf (http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/)

Date: 2005-04-23
Credit: Steven J. Baskauf (http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/)
Location: Daniel Boone National Forest Ky
Date: 2015-10-29

Date: August
credit: John Cameron
Location: Southern Pines, NC
Date: May 23, 2022
Wintergreen #181; RAB page 795, 145-1-1; AG page 322, 58-21-2, "N
Location: Jockey's Ridge, North Carolina | June, 2022
Date: 2022-06-12
Location: Southern Pines, NC
Date: May 23, 2022
Wintergreen #181; RAB page 795, 145-1-1; AG page 322, 58-21-2, "N
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