Chimaphila umbellata(L.) W.P.C.Barton

pipsissewa

WFO wfo-1000040546 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Chimaphila umbellata, photographed by Оксана Серикова
fig. a Оксана Серикова, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-30 / obs. 203446746
Chimaphila umbellata, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. b Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202683096
Chimaphila umbellata, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. c Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205037877
Chimaphila umbellata, photographed by James H. Thomas
fig. d James H. Thomas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201917701
Chimaphila umbellata, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. e Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205752577
Chimaphila umbellata, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. f Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205764168
Chimaphila umbellata, photographed by Steven Lamonde
fig. g Steven Lamonde, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201918086
Chimaphila umbellata, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. h Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200169968

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Flowering n = 5,251 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 5,251 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 23 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Chimaphila acuta Rydb.
  • Chimaphila corymbosa Prush
  • Chimaphila cymosa J.Presel & C.Presl
  • Chimaphila domingensis S.F.Blake
  • Chimaphila maculata var. mexicana (DC.) Hultén
  • Chimaphila mexicana (DC.) Rydb.
  • Chimaphila occidentalis Rydb.
  • Chimaphila umbellata (L.) Nutt.
  • Chimaphila umbellata f. americana Farw.
  • Chimaphila umbellata subsp. acuta Hultén
  • Chimaphila umbellata subsp. cisatlantica (S.F.Blake) Hultén
  • Chimaphila umbellata subsp. mexicana (DC.) Hultén
  • Chimaphila umbellata subsp. occidentalis (Rydb.) Hultén
  • Chimaphila umbellata var. acuta (Rydb.) S.F.Blake
  • Chimaphila umbellata var. cisatlantica S.F.Blake
  • Chimaphila umbellata var. mexicana DC.
  • Chimaphila umbellata var. occidentalis (Rydb.) S.F.Blake
  • Pipseva officinalis Raf.
  • Pseva umbellata (L.) Kuntze
  • Pyrola corymbosa Bertol.
  • Pyrola frutescens Gilib.
  • Pyrola umbellata L.
  • Pyrola verticillata Sessé & Moc.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.