Umbellate Wintergreen
Pipsissewa
Prince's pine
chimaphila umbellata latin

Chimaphila umbellata (Umbellate Wintergreen, Pipsissewa, or Prince's pine) is a small perennial flowering plant found in dry woodlands, or sandy soils.

(SLIPPERY ELM) Umbellate Wintergreen.

A local botanist told me it was pipsissewa, which my dictionary says is wintergreen.

The sitting area is bounded by a collar of partridgeberry, pipsissewa, wintergreen and small shrubs.

It lights up the modest winter covering of soft ground pine, striped wintergreen and glossy pipsissewa.

Researchers suspect that deer are eating the pipsissewa, but avoiding the wintergreen because of its astringency.

Extract of pipsissewa.

The dappled diversity of the forest and scattered flowers like pipsissewa, Indian pipes and bladderwort captivated us.

Root beer originally was brewed from a combination of 16 different wild roots and berries, including juniper, wintergreen and pipsissewa.

"Pipsissewa" is a Cree name meaning "It-breaks-into-small-pieces".

Once, pipsissewa, with shiny green leaves, dotted the pine and oak forests of New York, New Jersey and Long Island.

USDA Plant Profile for Chimaphila umbellata (pipsissewa)

The mystery ground cover is probably striped pipsissewa, C. maculata, which can spread into large carpets in the right ecosystem: humus-rich, acidic soil, under the shade of mature trees.

And they are scratching their heads over the near demise of pipsissewa, with lovely, fragrant white flowers, when a cousin, spotted wintergreen, is thriving in oak and pine forests.

Chimaphila umbellata (Umbellate Wintergreen, Pipsissewa, or Prince's pine) is a small perennial flowering plant found in dry woodlands, or sandy soils.

Which turns out to be the problem with sending a lepidopterist out after Sasquatch: he might not be able to see Bigfoot's forest through the pipsissewa, a batch of which he duly notes.

Common understory herbs are Bear grass, Twin flower, Pipsissewa, Dwarf dogwood or bunchberry, Bead lily, Trailing blackberry, Low false Solomon's seal, Foam flower, Trillium, Oak Fern, and Lady fern.

USDA Plant Profile for Chimaphila umbellata (pipsissewa)