Index / Search / Chimaphila umbellata ssp. occidentalis

§1 Plant

Chimaphila umbellata (L.) W.P.C. Barton ssp. occidentalis (Rydb.) Hultén

vernacular pipsissewa — subspecies · Pyrolaceae


USDA
CHUMO2
GBIF
7558122
Rank
subspecies
pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata ssp. occidentalis)
Platephotograph · Eric CarignanCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 154 counties across 10 states/territories
Legend Native · 154 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 154 counties across 10 states/territories.

California view state ↗ 22 N
Colorado view state ↗ 12 N
Idaho view state ↗ 17 N
Montana view state ↗ 21 N
Nevada view state ↗ 2 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 4 N
Oregon view state ↗ 26 N
Utah view state ↗ 13 N
Washington view state ↗ 28 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 9 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/CHUMO2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/7558122 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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