Side miterwort (Mitella stauropetala)
Description
Mitella is a genus of flowering plants known as miterworts or bishop's caps. Mitella species are native to temperate and arctic North America and Asia. Plants not stoloniferous. Flowering stems 10-55 cm. Leaves: petiole 2-15 cm, short stipitate-glandular and long stipitate-glandular, longer hairs retrorse or, sometimes, spreading, white, tan, or brown; blade cordate or reniform, shorter than or sometimes - as long as wide, (1.5-)2.5-10 - 2-8(-12) cm, margins 5- or 7-lobed, singly or doubly crenate, uniformly ciliate, apex of terminal lobe rounded to obtuse, surfaces glabrous or short stipitate-glandular and sparsely long stipitate-glandular; cauline leaves absent. Inflorescences 1-3(-6), closely 10-45-flowered, 1 flower per node, strongly secund, 10-55 cm, short stipitate-glandular and sparsely long stipitate-glandular proximally and distally. Pedicels 0.5-1.5 mm, short stipitate-glandular. Flowers: hypanthium turbinate-campanulate, 1.4-2.7 - 1.5-2.5(-3) mm; sepals erect or with tips spreading, greenish white to white, sometimes purple-tinged, oblong, oblong-obovate, or widely ovate, 1-2.2 - 0.7-1.2 mm; petals white, sometimes purple-tinged, 3-lobed or, sometimes, unlobed, 1.5-4 mm, lobes linear to lanceolate, lateral lobes ascending or spreading; stamens 5, opposite sepals; filaments white, 0.1-0.2 mm; anthers 0.3-0.5 - 0.2-0.3 mm; ovary ca. 2/3-3/4 inferior; styles divergent, flattened, 0.1-0.2 mm; stigmas unlobed. Seeds dark reddish brown to blackish, 0.8-1.2 mm, pitted. 2N = 14.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Saxifragales
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Family: Saxifragaceae
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Genus: Mitella
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