Chimaphila maculata(L.) Pursh

striped wintergreen

WFO wfo-0000602194 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Chimaphila maculata, photographed by Deana Tempest Thomas
fig. a Deana Tempest Thomas, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205776126
Chimaphila maculata, photographed by Anne Parker
fig. b Anne Parker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205925442
Chimaphila maculata, photographed by Jeff Clark
fig. c Jeff Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205617391
Chimaphila maculata, photographed by Paul Bedell
fig. d Paul Bedell, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205243968
Chimaphila maculata, photographed by Annie Weissman
fig. e Annie Weissman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204725100
Chimaphila maculata, photographed by Katy Swiere
fig. f Katy Swiere, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204698955
Chimaphila maculata, photographed by Bruce Slater
fig. g Bruce Slater, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204217325
Chimaphila maculata, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. h Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203500766

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 7,227 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 7,227 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 13 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 acuminata (Lange) Rydb.
  • Chimaphila costaricens Andres
  • Chimaphila dasystemma Torr. ex Rydb.
  • Chimaphila durandii Raf.
  • Chimaphila guatemalensis Rydb.
  • Chimaphila kochii Andres
  • Chimaphila maculata subsp. kochii Andres
  • Chimaphila maculata subsp. maculata
  • Chimaphila maculata var. acuminata Lange
  • Chimaphila maculata var. dasystemma (Torr. ex Rydb.) Kearney & Peebles
  • Pseva maculata (L.) Kuntze
  • Pyrola durandii Raf.
  • Pyrola maculata L.

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.