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Gaultheria L.
Aromatic Wintergreen
Gaultheria, Biota of North America Program (query database) [BONAP]
 Gaultheria (Ericaceae) ; [GNSP]

[sp-1a.jpg] 900x605 (~80Kb) USA: Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park (41°22'25N 124°00'53W ±1km), Humboldt Co. CA, 3.8.2001, Photo © Markku Savela [sp-1x.jpg] 800x593 (~50Kb) USA: Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park (41°22'25N 124°00'53W ±1km), Humboldt Co. CA, 3.8.2001, Photo © Markku Savela

The exact identification of these species is still unknown, but tentatively assumed to belong into this group.


Gaultheria hispidula (L.) Muhl. ex Bigelow
Creeping-snowberry Moxieplum Maidenhair Berry
Chiogenes hispidula (L.); Torr. & Gray
Gaultheria hispidula ; [BONAP]; [FPN, 343]
Gaultheria humifusa (Graham) Rydb.
Alpine Spicy-wintergreen Alpine Wintergreen Western Wintergreen Matted Wintergreen
Gaultheria humifusa ; [BONAP]; [FPN, 343]

Foodplant for Colias pelidne

Gaultheria miqueliana Takeda
Miquel's Spicy-wintergreen
Gaultheria miqueliana ; [BONAP]
Gaultheria ovatifolia Gray
Western Teaberry Slender Wintergreen Oregon Wintergreen
Gaultheria ovatifolia ; [BONAP]; [FPN, 343]
Gaultheria procumbens L.
Eastern Teaberry
Gaultheria procumbens ; [GMBOT, 636]; [BONAP]
Gaultheria shallon Pursh
Salal
Gaultheria shallon ; [BONAP]; [FPN, 344]
[shallon-1.jpg] 1000x667 (~114Kb) USA: Discovery Park, Seattle, King Co., WA, 22.6.2000, Photo © Markku Savela [shallon-2.jpg] 1000x681 (~116Kb) USA: Oregon Dunes (44°01'04N 124°08'29W), Douglas Co., OR, 16.7.2000, Photo © Markku Savela [shallon-3.jpg] 1000x748 (~158Kb) USA: Oregon Dunes (44°01'04N 124°08'29W), Douglas Co., OR, 16.7.2000, Photo © Markku Savela

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References:
[BONAP]
A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands; A data base interface; BONAP U.S. Checklist - 1998; Provided by TAMU-BWG; Texas A & M Bioinformatics Working Group; Based on; Biota of North America Program
[FPN]
Hitchcock & Cronquist, 1998; Flora of the Pacific Northwest (11th ed.); ISBN 0-295-95273-3
[GMBOT]
Robinson, Benjamin L., Fernald, Merrit Lyndon, 1908; Gray's New Manual of Botany (7th edition); A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and adjacent Canada; American Book Company
[GNSP]
Wielgorskaya, 1995; Dictionary of generic names of seed plants

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