Definition of Mitella diphylla

1. Noun. Miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers.

Exact synonyms: Fairy Cup
Group relationships: Genus Mitella, Mitella
Generic synonyms: Bishop's Cap, Miterwort, Mitrewort

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitella Diphylla

Mister Man
Mister Right
Misters
Mistralian
Misty
Mitanni
Mitchell
Mitchell's disease
Mitchell's treatment
Mitchell principle
Mitchell principles
Mitchella
Mitchella repens
Mitchum
Mitella diphylla
Mitella pentandra
Mitford
Mithra
Mithracin
Mithraea
Mithraeum
Mithraeums
Mithraic
Mithraicism
Mithraism
Mithraist
Mithras
Mithridates
Mithridates VI

Literary usage of Mitella diphylla

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"mitella diphylla L. Two-leaved Bishop's Cap ... mitella diphylla L. Sp. PI. 406. 1753. Scape lo'-l8' high, pubescent, bearing a pair of opposite nearly or ..."

2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1906)
"This plant which was thought by Dr. Gray to be a possible hybrid of Tiarella cordifolia and mitella diphylla is represented by two sheets in the Gray ..."

3. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences by Davenport Academy of Sciences (1904)
"It is associated particularly with Poly podium vulgare, Woodsia obtusata, several species of moss, occasionally with mitella diphylla, ..."

4. Analytical Class-book of Botany: Designed for Academies and Private Students by Frances Harriet Green, Joseph W. Congdon (1857)
"Л plant much resembling mitella diphylla, with which it commonly grows In rocky woods. Muy—June. 4. ..."

5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1847)
"In a damp and rich wood there was a profusion of Dentaria diphylla, Panax trifolium, mitella diphylla, and Erythronium americanum. ..."

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