Plants : PyrolaceaeFerns and Flowering Plants

Orthilia secunda (L.) House

Serrated Wintergreen

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Orthilia secunda

Description: This is a scarce, but perhaps overlooked, small herbaceous perennial of rock ledges and scree in upland situations, scattered in a few sites across the north of Northern Ireland and in County Fermanagh.

The flowers, which appear in midsummer, are bell-shaped, greenish in colour, and grouped so that they all face the same way.

All names: Orthilia secunda (L.) House; Ramischia secunda (L.) Garecke; Pyrola secunda L.

Distribution Map from NBN: Orthilia secunda at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Orthilia secunda at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

 Hackney, P., 2026. Orthilia secunda. (L.) House. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland.
https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=4595. Accessed on 2026-11-02.