Flowers are white, styles are curved and protrude out of the corolla. Flowers measured to 12 mm in diameter. Flowers fragrant. Leaves are basal, oblong to spatulate, blade is longer than the petiole. Leaf highlighted in photo above was 5.5 cm long, 3.5 cm wide, and had a petiole of 2.0 cm long. Plants glabrous.

Taxonomic key identifies this species by the shape of the leaf blades (broadly elliptical to oblong), and, the leaf petioles are shorter in length than the leaf blades. Begins flowering 3-4 weeks after similar species P. asarifolia, and P. chlorantha.

Habitat is moist coniferous forest.

Uncommon in our experience, listed as not common in Budd's Flora.

Height listed in Budd's Flora to 30 cm, we measured plants to 23 cm tall.

Photos taken on July 27th, at locations northwest and northeast of Hudson Bay, SK, each about 450 km northeast of our home in Regina, SK.

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