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|accepted_name=Chimaphila
|accepted_authority=Pursh
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|place=1: 279, 300. 1813 ,
}}
|common_names=Prince’s-plume;chimaphile
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ericaceae;Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae;Chimaphila
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ericaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chimaphila]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek cheima, winter, and philia, love, alluding to evergreen habit
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 374, 378, 386
|treatment_page=page 385
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> chlorophyllous, autotrophic. <b>Stems</b> erect, rarely decumbent, glabrous or papillose to hispidulous, especially distally. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, alternate or pseudoverticillate in 2–5(–6) whorls; petiole present; blade maculate or not, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, ovate, lanceolate-oblong, oblanceolate, elliptic, or spatulate, coriaceous, margins entire, serrulate, serrate, or crenate-serrate, revolute, surfaces glabrous or papillose. <b>Inflorescences</b> corymbs or subumbels, rarely solitary flowers, not lax in bud or flower, erect in fruit, (symmetric); peduncular bracts absent; inflorescence bracts adnate to pedicels, sometimes scarcely so. <b>Pedicels</b> erect in fruit, (glabrous or papillose to hispidulous); bracteoles absent. <b>Flowers</b> radially symmetric, nodding or spreading; sepals 5, connate proximally, often obscurely so, calyx lobes ovate, broadly ovate, or suborbiculate; petals 5, distinct, white, pink, or rose, often tinged violet, without basal tubercles, (surfaces glabrous), corolla rotate to crateriform or broadly crateriform; intrastaminal nectary disc present; stamens 10, included; filaments broad proximally, abruptly narrowed medially, slender distally, dilated basal portions ciliate or villous to densely villous; anthers oblong, without awns, with tubules, dehiscent by 2 crescent-shaped to round pores; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary imperfectly 5-locular; placentation intruded-parietal; style (included), straight, expanded distally; stigma entire or obscurely 5-ridged, without subtending ring of hairs. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, erect, dehiscence loculicidal, no cobwebby tissue exposed by splitting valves at dehiscence. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 1000, fusiform, winged. <b>x</b> = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies (Hispaniola);Central America;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Ethnobotanical studies have documented a wide variety of drug and food uses of Chimaphila among more than two dozen tribes of Native Americans (D. E. Moerman 1998; K. Sheth et al. 1967).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=standley1988a
|text=Standley, L. A., S. S.-H. Kim, and I. M. Hjersted. 1988. Reproductive biology of two sympatric species of Chimaphila. Rhodora 90: 233–244.
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|id=takahashi1986b
|text=Takahashi, Hiroshi. 1986b. Pollen polyads and their variation in Chimaphila (Pyrolaceae). Grana 25: 161–169.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inflorescence bracts broadly ovate to broadly obovate; inflorescences 1-3-flowered; calyx lobes (3-)5-6.5 mm; stigmas 1.6-2.2(-2.8) mm wide.
|[[Chimaphila menziesii|Chimaphila menziesii]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inflorescence bracts acicular to linear-lanceolate; inflorescences (1-)2-7-flowered; calyx lobes 1-4.1 mm; stigmas 2-4 mm wide
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades maculate; dilated basal portions of filaments densely villous.
|[[Chimaphila maculata|Chimaphila maculata]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades not maculate; dilated basal portions of filaments ciliate
|[[Chimaphila umbellata|Chimaphila umbellata]]
|}
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name=Chimaphila
|author=Craig C. Freeman
|authority=Pursh
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ericaceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies (Hispaniola);Central America;Eurasia.
|reference=standley1988a;takahashi1986b
|publication title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Ericaceae subfam. Monotropoideae
|genus=Chimaphila
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