Spotted Wintergreen (Striped Wintergreen, Spotted Pipsissewa)
Chimaphila maculata
Spotted wintergreen is immediately recognizable by its leaves with a broad light-green stripe down the middle. The leaves are evergreen.
maculata, or Spotted Wintergreen, is very similar, but the leaves are a deep olivegreen colour with greenish-white veins. When fresh and bruised they have a peculiar odour, which is lost on drying; taste pleasantly bitter, astringent and sweetish.
Spotted Wintergreen [English]: Chimaphila maculata
Spotted-Arum [English]: Zantedeschia albomaculata
Spotted-Dog [English]: Pulmonaria officinalis
Spotted-Hemlock [English]: Conium maculatum
Spotted-Hemlock [English]: Conium maculatum viride ...
Index- plants in this Family
Pyrolaceae / Pyrolas Striped Wintergreen (Chimaphila maculata)
Striped Wintergreen is also known as Striped Prince's Pine, Spotted Wintergreen and Spotted Pipissewa or just Pipissewa. ...
Folia Chimaphilae, extracted from the leaves, is a tonic and diuretic used in the treatment of bladder problems. C. maculata is called spotted wintergreen.
 See also: Wintergreen, Green, Evergreen, Medic, Pine
  
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