Wintergreen (Teaberry, Checkerberry)
Gaultheria procumbens
Wintergreen has bright red berries. Both leaves and berries are aromatic.
Wintergreen
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Wintergreen
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or checkerberry, low evergreen plant (Gaultheria procumbens) of the family Ericaceae ( family), native to sandy and acid woods (usually of evergreens) of E North America and frequently cultivated.
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Pink Wintergreen
Pyrola asarifolia Michx.
Family: Ericaceae, Heath
Genus: Pyrola ...
Wintergreen is a group of plants. Wintergreen once commonly referred to plants that continue photosynthesis (remain green) throughout the winter. The term evergreen is now more commonly used for this characteristic.
Wintergreen
Botanical: Gaultheria procumbens (LINN.)
Family: N.O. Ericaceae ...
Begonia Wintergreen
( Wintergreen Begonia )
Begonias are tender perennials, grown for their colorful flowers and foliage.
Arborvitae Wintergreen
Tough foundation plants, windbreaks, headges and screens, these cone-bearing evergreens thrive in wet soil and full sun. Use the dwarf types in rock gardens. Their flat needle-like leaves are fragrant.
Eastern Teaberry, Wintergreen
Scientific Name: Gaultheria procumbens L.
Synonym:
Family: Ericaceae ...
Foliage has a strong wintergreen scent when crushed. Urn-shaped white or pale pink flowers appear in summer and mature to aromatic scarlet fruit that often persists into the following spring.
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. ...
Wintergreen Barberry: Wintergreen barberry (Berberis julianae) is an evergreen shrub with thorny branches. It grows about 10 feet tall and wide. The thorns and dense growth habit combine to make this an excellent barrier plant.
Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
Zone 5, 10 cm high x 30 cm
Broadleaf evergreen groundcover; light pink flowers in spring followed by prominent red berries.
Wintergreen Single-leaf Orchids
The single-leaf wintergreen orchids (aplectrum, cremastra and tipularia) each form a large single solitary leaf in the fall that persists through the winter and finally dies off just before the flowers arise in the ...
'Wintergreen' - Perhaps the finest form, this plant features a narrow conical habit and bright green foliage that does not discolor in winter. The plant grows slowly and often looks so pristine that one could mistake it for plastic.
Wintergreen:
The Little Tea of the Woods
It's amusing to realize that this tiny aromatic evergreen is technically a shrub. It can be used as a bonsai tree for beginners who don't know how to bonsai, since it would need no training as such.
One-sided Wintergreen
Pyrola
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Boxwood, the wintergreen garden shrub, is the world's oldest ornamental garden landscape plant, perfect for hedge planting and topiary.
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uva-ursi Bearberry Aronia arbutifolia Red Chokeberry Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima' Brilliant Red Chokeberry Aucuba japonica Aucuba Aucuba japonica 'Variegata' Gold Dust Aucuba Botanical Name Common Name Berberis julianae Wintergreen ...
Catmint, Cat's Ear, Caucasian Stonecrop, Celery-leaved Buttercup, Chaffweed, Chalk Milkwort, Chalk-stream Water Crowfoot, Changing Forget-me-not, Charlock, Cheddar Pink, Cherry Laurel, Chestnut Rush, Chickweed Willowherb, Chickweed Wintergreen, ...
Used in the manufacture of oil of wintergreen, this tree is very nice smelling.
Betula maximowicziana: monarch birch.
Leaf: Alternate, simple, evergreen, oval to elliptical, 1 to 2 inches long, minutely serrated, thickened with a wintergreen odor when crushed, leaves appear whorled since they cluster at tips of plant; dark shiny green above, ...
It makes a tall, wintergreen and usually summer dormant woody shrub with large oval, undulated leaves and axillary yellowish-cream flowers, which are followed by fruits made up of a slightly inflated, green calyx and a bright orange "eye", i.e.
Monotropa uniflora (Pyrolaceae) -- This member of the wintergreen family is saprophytic; it gets its nutrients from decaying plant matter rather than through photosynthesis.
If you can reach a branch, the living twigs smell like wintergreen. Its bark has a horizontal peeling pattern like other birches, but the tree is named for its yellow-tinged dark gray color instead of the familiar chalky white of the paper birch.
punctata (similar), Gaulthérie couchée (francés), Ground berry (inglés), Ground holly (inglés), Hillberry (inglés), Leatherleaf (inglés), Mountain tea (inglés), Partrige berry (inglés), Pesjua (castellano), Spiceberry (inglés), Spicy wintergreen ...
Moneses uniflora. One-Flowered Wintergreen. (The apparent leaves in this photo belong to a different plant. Look on the ground for the real leaves.)
Botany in a Day
Parnassia fimbriata. Fringed Grass of Parnassia..
‘Emerald,' ‘Techny' and ‘Wintergreen' are some of the best upright forms for screening. ‘Woodwardii' and ‘Hetz Midget' are good dwarf, globe-shaped forms.
TWIGS: Green and hairy when young later brown and smooth, with only a faint wintergreen flavor and smell. Buds dull yellowish green, slightly downy.
FRUIT: An erect, very short-stalked cone, 1½" long, made up of small, winged nuts and scales.
dry, brown.
disinct wintergreen odour and taste.
copper coloured twigs.
bark ...
The bark has the odour of wintergreen and reportedly tastes of it. It is tolerant of swampy areas, preferring a cool site with some moisture, unhappy in hot and dry locations.
Chemical composition of Milkwort
Triterpenic saponins, bitter substances, tannin mater, artificial oil of wintergreen as glycoside and triterpenic saponins.
Pharmaceutical action:
It stimulates secretions and especially bronchic secretion.
Viola tricolor - Wintergreen flavor, Purple and yellow in color
Lavendula - Sweet, perfumed flavor, Lavender in color
Syringa vulgaris - Varies flavor, Lavender in color
Tilia - Honey-like flavor, White in color ...
Johnny Jump-Ups: mild, wintergreen
Lavender: sweet, floral
Lemon verbena: lemon
Lilac: flowery, a little bitter
Linden: similar to honeysuckle
Marigold: usually peppery, can be somewhat bitter
Nasturtium: peppery, good in salads ...
Such as, the sweet hay smell of bedstraws, or the white dots of the pepper grass flower. Honey aromas may surround you walking among red clover blossoms. You will remember the cool, clean smell of the waxy evergreen leaves of wintergreen.
Weigela (Weigela florida)
Cranberry Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster apiculatus)
Wintergreen Barberry (Berberis julianae)
Thorney Elaeagnus (Elaeagnus pungens)
Butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii)
Azalea (Rhododendron sp.) ...
The inner bark can be dried and ground into flour in emergencies. One can also cut the inner bark into strips and boil to eat like noodles or simply eat them raw. The young twigs can also be boiled to make a tea. Oil of wintergreen comes from ...
Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
Wisteria (Wisteria species)
Witch hazel (Hamamelis species)
Witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
Wood betony (Stachys officinalis)
Woolly yarrow (Achillea tomentosa)
Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) ...
 See also: Green, May, Evergreen, Birch, Pink
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