Pyrola?

Pyrola rotundifolia is common here (in Norway), it has relatively huge flowers and the style is long and S-shaped. The form of the leaves are like your plant but I have never seen such yellow veins. The leaves of your plant are very decorative!

Pyrola rotundifolia also occurs in Newfoundland but I've never noticed such veined leaves on ours either.

I believe the commoner Pyrola in the east is P. elliptica. There is also a beautifully mottled Pyrola maculata which is common in parts of the Southeast. Your plant somehow suggests and intermediate of these to me.

Lis wrote:

Sorry to be so late responding to your post! I didn't look at the mystery plants until today. Anyway, your pyrola is most likely P. virens, although P. minor can look similar. P. minor is smaller and the veins on the leaves are more often white than yellow. The flowers of P. rotundifolia and P. elliptica are white with touches of pink, and much larger. All the pyrolas native to Eastern Canada seem to me to be a lot like the orchids - delightful when you find them, but not easy to make happy in cultivation. The pyrolas seem to need very specialized conditions, probably some sort of soil fungii, to be healthy. I have lots of plants of P. rotundifolia, P. elliptica, P. secunda, Monesis uniflora (I know, but it looks so much like a pyrola) and P. minor, but most years only a few of them bloom.

Interesting, Lis.
Do you transplant the Pyrolas from the woods (How do you do that - I think they are parasitic of mycelia?) or have you used seed? I have tried to move plants a few times but they never survive more than a year.

Lis, maybe I can get seeds from Pyrola norvegica which now is regarded as a form of P. grandiflora. But not this fall, the woods where they grow are covered by snow. Though I have to wait till next spring and look for overwintered capsules or even till next fall. 

I love seeing stands of Pyrola rotundifolia in the Dolomites, often sheltering under conifers or Rhododendron ferrugineum.  A plant that really deserves closer inspection ...

Pyrola rotundifolia

I'm fairly familiar with the Pyrolas of Connecticut (I used to live in the state, and I was active in the Connecticut Botanical Society). I'm voting for Pyrola americana (syn rotundifolia). It's quite characteristic of the plant to have glossy leaves with lighter veins -- although your plant is probably more conspicuously veined than average. Pyrola americana is not exactly common in Connecticut, but it's not rare either.

The only other Pyrolas reported in Connecticut are P. elliptica and P. virens (syn. chlorantha). This is definitely not Pyrola elliptica, because that species has non-shiny leaves that are, well, elliptical rather than rotund. Pyrola virens is possible, but it's much less common in Connecticut than is P. americana.