HyperDic: mitella_pentandra

English > 1 sense of the expression Mitella pentandra:
NOUNplantMitella pentandra, five-point bishop's capsmall plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes
English > Mitella pentandra: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningsmall plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes; northwestern North America to California and Colorado.
Synonymfive-point bishop's cap
Member ofMitella, genus Mitellagenus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals
Broadermiterwort, mitrewort, bishop's capAny of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter

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