Pyrola asarifolla

Pyrola asarifolla Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 251. 1803,
Pyrola rotundifolia asarifoUa Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 46. 1834. Thelaia asarifoUa Alef. Linnaea 28: 54. 1856.
Perennial, with a slender creeping rootstock; stem above ground very short; petioles 2-7 cm. long; leaf-blades from suborbicular to rounded-reniform, usually cordate or subcordate at the base, 2-5 cm. long, 2-6 cm. wide, thick, dark-green and shining above, usually brownish or reddish beneath, crenulate, the veins not excurrent; scape with 1 or 2 scales, including the inflorescence 1-2.5 dm. long; bracts reddish, lanceolate, scarcely equaling the pedicels; pedicels about 4 mm. long; flowers 5-15; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, about 3 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, widest just above the base; petals oval, pink or purple, about 5 mm. long; filaments dilated below; anthers 2-2.5 mm. long, mucronate at the distal end; style in flower 7-8 mm., in fruit 8-9 mm. long, thickened upwards; stigmas shorter than the width of the collar; fruit depressed-globose, 7-8 mm. thick.
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Type locality: Not given.
Distribution: Bogs and wet woods from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts, South Dakota, New