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Chimaphila

noun

Small genus of evergreen herbs with long creeping rootstocks and shining leaves; North America; Europe; east Asia. Synonym: genus Chimaphila.

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Chimaphila corymbosa

Chimaphila umbellata

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"Chimaphila" Quotes from Famous Books

... plum, cherry, and crab apple; besides thousands of charming bloomers to be found in all sorts of places throughout the wilderness whose mere names are refreshing, such as linnaea, menziesia, pyrola, chimaphila, brodiaea, smilacina, fritillaria, calochortus, trillium, clintonia, veratrum, cypripedium, goodyera, spiranthes, habenaria, and the rare and lovely "Hider of the North," Calypso borealis, to find which is alone a sufficient object for a journey into the wilderness. ...

— Steep Trails • John Muir

... true Partridge-berry, the Chimaphila, Yellow Lily, Mullein, Ghost Flower, Indian Pipe, Lysimacha Stricta, Wild Chamomile. August will bring forth a variety of other plants, amongst others the Spirantes, or Ladies' Tresses, a very sweet-scented Orchis, with white flowers placed as a spiral round the flower ...

— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine

Words linked to "Chimaphila" : pipsissewa, wintergreen family, prince's pine, dilleniid dicot genus, Chimaphila corymbosa, Pyrolaceae, genus Chimaphila, family Pyrolaceae