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§1 Plant

Orthilia secunda (L.) House

vernacular sidebells wintergreen — species · Pyrolaceae


USDA
ORSE
GBIF
2888310
Rank
species
sidebells wintergreen (Orthilia secunda)
Platephotograph · Anna Wyngaarden source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 351 counties across 25 states/territories
Legend Native · 351 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 351 counties across 25 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 20 N
Arizona view state ↗ 5 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N
Indiana view state ↗ 4 N
Maine view state ↗ 16 N
Maryland view state ↗ 4 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N
Michigan view state ↗ 54 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 38 N
Montana view state ↗ 15 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 2 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 8 N
New York view state ↗ 46 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 8 N
Ohio view state ↗ 7 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 33 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 3 N
Vermont view state ↗ 12 N
Virginia view state ↗ 3 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 35 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/ORSE ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2888310 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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