White flower in mid-summer woods – chickweed wintergreen

Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
 
Chickweed wintergreen.
 
White is abundant in meadows now, with blooming cow-parsley and yarrow and bedstraws, but in the woods there is less of it after the springtime overflow of wood anemones. But there is some, and one white-flowering plant is the chickweed wintergreen (Trientalis europaea). Even the fruit is white, a round capsule. The chickweed wintergreen provides colour in the autumn too, when its leaves take on coppery and pink hues.


 

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