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§1 Plant

Chimaphila maculata (L.) Pursh

vernacular striped prince's pine — species · Pyrolaceae


USDA
CHMA3
GBIF
2888304
Rank
species
striped prince's pine (Chimaphila maculata)
Platephotograph · Patrick HanlyCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Pyrolaceae Lindl.
Genus
Chimaphila
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 615 counties across 25 states/territories
Legend Native · 615 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 615 counties across 25 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 31 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 63 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 20 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 25 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 67 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 47 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 48 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 31 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 57 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 100 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 39 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CHMA3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2888304 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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