| Orthilia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Ericaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pyroloideae |
| Genus: | Orthilia Raf. |
| Species: | O. secunda
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| Binomial name | |
| Orthilia secunda (L.) House
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| Synonyms | |
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Pyrola secunda | |
Orthilia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It has only one species, Orthilia secunda.[2][3][4] Its common names are sidebells wintergreen,[2] one-sided-wintergreen and serrated-wintergreen.[3] It is also called one-sided pyrola, one-sided shinleaf, and one-sided wintergreen. It was previously part of genus Pyrola, the wintergreens.[5]
The plant has a circumboreal distribution, growing throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere.
The American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, belongs to a different genus.
- ^ NatureServe (2024). "Orthilia secunda". Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Orthilia secunda L." PLANTS Profile. United States Department of Agriculture; Natural Resources Conservation Service. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ^ a b "Orthilia secunda". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- ^ Pojar, Jim; Andy MacKinnon (1994). Plants of the Pacific Northwest. Lone Pine Publishing. p. 70. ISBN 1-55105-042-0.
- ^ "Plants Profile for Orthilia secunda (sidebells wintergreen )". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 22 December 2017.