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§1 Plant

Chimaphila menziesii (R. Br. ex D. Don) Spreng.

vernacular little prince's pine — species · Pyrolaceae


USDA
CHME
GBIF
8629183
Rank
species
little prince's pine (Chimaphila menziesii)
Platephotograph · birdspazCC BY-SA 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

· 79 counties across 6 states/territories
Legend Native · 79 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 79 counties across 6 states/territories.

California view state ↗ 27 N
Idaho view state ↗ 3 N
Nevada view state ↗ 3 N
Oregon view state ↗ 22 N
Utah view state ↗ 2 N
Washington view state ↗ 22 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CHME ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/8629183 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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