NOUN | plant | Mitella pentandra, five-point bishop's cap | small plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes |
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Meaning | small plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes; northwestern North America to California and Colorado. | |
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Synonym | five-point bishop's cap | |
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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