• Scientific Name: Pyrola asarifolia subsp. incarnata (DC.) E. Murr.
• Ref: Kalmia, 12:24. 1982
• Synonyms: Pyrola asarifolia subsp. bracteata (Hook.) E. Haber, P. asarifolia var. bracteata (Hook.) Jeps., P. asarifolia var. incarnata (DC.) Fern., P. bracteata Hook., P. bracteata var. hillii J.K.Henry, P. incarnata (DC.) Freyn, P. incarnata var. ovatifolia Y.Z. Zhao, P. media subsp. sikkimensis (Krisa) Sarvela, P. rotundifolia subsp. incarnata (DC.) Krylov, P. rotundifolia var. incarnata DC., P. rotundifolia var. purpurea Bunge, P. sikkimensis Krísa, P. speciosa Nasaroff
• English Common Name: pink wintergreen
• Chinese Common Name: 红花鹿蹄草 hónghuā lùtícǎo
• Japanese Common Name: ベニバナイチヤクソウ [紅花一薬草] benibanaichiyakusō
• Family: Ericaceae
• Genus: Pyrola
• Distribution: Dry deciduous broad-leaved and coniferous forests; sea level to 2500 m. Hebei, Heilongjiang, ?Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, E Nei Mongol, ?Ningxia, Shanxi, ?Sichuan, Xinjiang [Japan, N Korea, Mongolia, Russia].
• Photo: 07/16/2008, Mt. Changbai, Jilin

Herbs 1–5 cm tall. Rhizome creeping, long, somewhat thick, 0.7–2 mm in diam., branched, with sparse fine roots. Stems ascending. Leaves appearing radical, 3–8, in 2 or 3 subverticils of 3 or 4 each; petiole 3–5 cm; leaf blade pale green abaxially, green and shiny adaxially, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 2–5.5 × 1.5–5.5 cm, base rounded or scarcely cordate, rarely subacute, margin obscurely serrulate, apex rounded to obtuse. Scape erect, 10–25 cm tall, angled, glabrous, with 4 or 5 broadly lanceolate-elliptic membranous basal scales and 1–4 lanceolate scales near middle; raceme densely 7–15-flowered. Bracts broadly lanceolate, membranous, apex acuminate. Flowers drooping, zygomorphic. Sepals narrowly ovate to broadly lanceolate, ca. 2 × as long as wide, 1.7–4.7 × 1.1–2.3 mm, apex acute to acuminate. Petals rose, 5–9 × 3–6 mm. Filaments curved upward; anthers dark purple, gathered above style, 1.4–3 mm, tubules present, opening by narrow terminal pores. Style exserted, curved, 6–10 mm, dilated at apex into a ring; stigma with a collar and 5 erect cylindric lobes. Capsules 7–8 mm in diam. Fl. Jun, fr. Jul–Oct. (Flora of China)

07/16/2008, Mt. Changbai, Jilin