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Definition of Mitchella repens
1. Noun. Creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries.
Group relationships: Genus Mitchella, Mitchella
Generic synonyms: Vine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitchella Repens
Literary usage of Mitchella repens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Companion to the Botanical Magazine by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1835)
"363. Panax trifolium, L. — New York and Pennsylvania. 364. Aralia racemosa, L.
— Covington. 385. Mitchella repens, L.—N. Orl. (n. 146. ..."
2. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1897)
"Mitchella repens. BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION.—" This is an indigenous evergreen herb,
with a perennial root, from which arises a smooth and creeping stem, ..."
3. Charles Darwin's Works by Charles Darwin (1896)
"... —Mitchella repens, fertility of the flowers in pairs—Houstonia—Faramea,
remarkable difference in the ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1918)
"... but not in the quadrats counted: Anaphalis margari- tacea, Epilobium,
angustifolium, Erechtites hieracifolia, Mitchella repens, Polygonatum biflorum, ..."
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