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- Mitella, from the Latin
- nuda, from the Latin, nudus, "bare, naked".
- The common and Latin names come from the diminutive of mitra, which means
'cap' or 'mitre'. Presumably the seed capsule was thought to resemble a
bishop's mitre, though one reference suggests that it looks more like 'a
tattered French-Canadian toque'! The species name, nuda, means 'naked' in
reference to the bare stem.
- Common name from
- Other common names include Bishop's Cap, Naked Bishop's Cap, Small Bishop's
Cap, Bare-stemmed Mitrewort, Stoloniferous Mitrewort
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Taxonomy: |
- Kingdom Plantae, the Plants
- Division Magnoliophyta, the Angiosperms (flowering plants)
- Class Magnoliopsida, the Dicotyledons
- Subclass Rosidae
- Order Rosales
- Family Saxifragaceae, the Saxifrages
- Genus Mitella, the Mitreworts
- Taxonomic Serial Number: 24410
- Also known as
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Description: |
- A ¼, ½, ¾, º, é
- blooms May-Jun.; plant 6"-12"
- Leaves
- Stem
- Roots
- Flowers
- Sepals
- Petals
- Stamens
- Pistils
- Ovary superior (within blossom) inferior (below flower)
- Fruit
- Seed
- Small rhizomatous and often stoloniferous perennial with scapes 0.7-2.5
dm tall, glandular-pubescent especially upward. Leaves all basal or with
1 sessile or short-petioled leaf below the middle on the scape; blades rotund-cordate
to reniform, 1-3.5 cm across, sparingly hirsute at least on the upper surface,
crenate on the margin; petioles mostly 2-9 cm long; stipules brownish, ovate,
2-4 mm long. Flowers small, greenish, in racemes of 3-12 flowers; sepals
ovate, 1-2 mm long; petals green, pinnately divided into usually 4 pairs
of filiform segments, 2-4 mm long; stamens 10; pistil 2-carpellary, stigmas
2, on short divergent styles, ovary ca. 1/2 inferior or less; hypanthium
saucer-shaped; pedicels 1-6 mm long. Capsules splitting open widely, the
seeds rather few, black, shiny, ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm long. Jun--Jul. Bogs
and swamps, often growing among mosses; rare, with records from Bottineau
and Pembina Counties, ND; (Labr. to AK, s to PA, MI, MN, ND, MT and WA;
also e Asia).
- General - a small perennial, with long, slender, creeping rhizomes (often
stolon-like); stems erect, 3 - 20 cm tall, with fine gland-tipped hairs,
usually leafless.
Leaves - at stem base, few, long-stalked, ehart-shaped to kidney-shaped,
2 - 5 cm across, round-toothed, with scattered, stiffly erect hairs above.
Flowers - in few-flowered clusters (spikes) at stem tips, greenish yellow,
small, saucer-shaped, inconspicuous; petals divided into 4 pairs of thread-like
lobes (like television antenna); 10 stamens; appearing in early-summer.
Fruit - capsules, 2 - 3 mm long, open widely into shallow cups; seeds
shiny, black; ripening in late-summer.
- Small flowers with deeply incised petals in a loose cluster along flower
stems. Flowers appear in early June. Leaves are basal, round toothed, with
stiff hairs rising straight up (perpendicular) from the leaf surface.
- usually stoloniferous, leaves cordate to reniform, 1-3cm long, bicrenate,
adaxially sparsely hirsute, raceme 3-12- flowered, petals 4mm, laciniate
- Small, woodland perennial. Heart-shaped leaves have a few rounded teeth.
Few flowers, greenish-yellow.
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Identification: |
- Identifiable as
- Distinguished from
- Field Marks
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Distribution: |
- Alaska to Newfoundland,
- Labrador to Alaska, south to Pennsylvania and Minnesota; Asia.
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Habitat: |
- Beech Forest; Boreal Forest; Northern Lowland Forest; Northern Upland
Forest; Southern Lowland Forest
- White Cedar Swamp
- Moist forests, thickets, and streambanks; widespread across our region,
north to southern N.W.T. and southern Yukon.
- Wooded swamps, mossy thickets, rich woods
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History: |
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Reproduction: |
- Sexually by seed
- Flowers
- Assexually by
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Propagation: |
- seed in winter
cuttings in late summer; root cuttings in spring
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Last Updated on
7 November, 2002
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