NOUN | plant | Mitella diphylla, fairy cup | miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers |
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Meaning | miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers. | |
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Synonym | fairy cup | |
Member of | Mitella, genus Mitella | genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals |
Broader | miterwort, mitrewort, bishop's cap | Any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter |
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