NOUN | plant | Mitella, genus Mitella | genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals |
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Meaning | genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals. | |
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Synonym | genus Mitella | |
Member of | Saxifragaceae, family Saxifragaceae, saxifrage family | A large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs |
Members | fairy cup, Mitella diphylla | miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers |
five-point bishop's cap, Mitella pentandra | small plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes | |
miterwort, mitrewort, bishop's cap | Any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter | |
Broader | rosid dicot genus | A genus of dicotyledonous plants |
Spanish | genus mitella, mitella | |
Catalan | genus mitella, mitella |
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