Side miterwort

Description

Mitella stauropetala is a species of Magnoliopsida described by Charles Vancouver Piper. Mitella stauropetala belongs to the genus Mitella, and the family Saxifragaceae. Single subspecies: M. s. stenopetala. 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. Mitella includes perennials growing from a scaly rhizome, bearing wide heart- or spade-shaped leaves near their bases and flowers with five petals in a long raceme or spike. The genus name means "little mitre", from Latin mitra with the diminutive suffix -ella, since the flowers are said to resemble bishop's headdresses. In Classical Latin use, however, mitella means "female headdress" or "sling". Latin mitra comes from Greek mítrā "girdle", "headband", or "turban".