genus mitella

Noun
  1. Genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals (synset 112821087)
    is a type of: rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
    member holonym:
    • bishop's cap, miterwort, mitrewort - any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter
    • 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: family saxifragaceae, saxifragaceae, saxifrage family - a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae
    same as: mitella

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