bishop's cap

Noun
  1. Any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter (synset 112821346)
    is a type of: herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
    subtypes:
    • 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; northwestern North America to California and Colorado
    belongs to: genus mitella, mitella - genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals
    same as: miterwort, mitrewort

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