Wintergreen (disambiguation)
Wintergreen may refer to:
- One of various unrelated evergreen plants, including:
- Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
- Gaultheria procumbens – known as eastern teaberry or simply wintergreen
- Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
- Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
- Several genera in the herbaceous subfamily Pyrolaceae, within Ericaceae including:
- Genus Pyrola
- Genus Orthilia
- Genus Moneses
- Genus Chimaphila
- Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen
- Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, which are in the family Primulaceae, are known as "chickweed wintergreen"
- Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
- A flavoring derived from wintergreen plants
- Wintergreen (band), an American band
- Wintergreen (book), a book by Robert Pyle
- Wintergreen (comics), a character in the Teen Titans comic
- Wintergreen (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Wintergreen Resort, located in Virginia, United States
- Wintergreen Studios, off-grid education centre in Ontario, Canada
- ex-PFC Wintergreen, a fictional character from Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22
- Wintergreen, a presidential candidate in the play Of Thee I Sing
- "Wintergreen", a song by That Handsome Devil from A City Dressed in Dynamite
See also
- Methyl salicylate, also known as oil of wintergreen
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