Mitella nuda L.

Naked miterwort (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Saxifragaceae > Mitella

Characteristics

Plants usually stoloniferous. Flowering stems (2-)6-20(-25) cm. Leaves: petiole 1.2-8(-10) cm, short stipitate-glandular, longer hairs usually retrorse, sometimes spreading, white; blade cordate to reniform, ± as long as wide, (0.4-)1.1-4.7(-8) × (0.4-)1.2-4.8(-7.5) cm, margins unlobed or shallowly 3-lobed, singly crenate, irregularly ciliate, apex of terminal lobe obtuse to rounded, surfaces sparsely glandular-puberulent and glandular-hirsute; cauline leaves absent or 1, proximal, sessile or subsessile, blade 0.4-1.6(-2.8) × 0.8-2.6 cm. Inflorescences 1-3(-6), remotely (1-)2-15-flowered, 1 flower per node, not secund, long stipitate-glandular proximally, short stipitate-glandular distally. Pedicels 1-6 mm, short stipitate-glandular. Flowers: hypanthium broadly campanulate, 1.5-2.5 × 2.5-3.5 mm; sepals spreading or recurved, greenish white, ovate to triangular-ovate, 1.5-2.4 × 1-1.8 mm; petals greenish yellow or greenish white, 9-11-lobed, (2-)3.5-5 mm, lobes linear, lateral lobes spreading; stamens 10, opposite and alternate with sepals; filaments white or greenish white, 0.3-0.5 mm; anthers 0.2-0.3 × 0.2-0.3 mm; ovary 1/3-1/2 inferior; styles erect or spreading, cylindric, 0.4-0.6 mm; stigmas unlobed. Seeds dark reddish brown or blackish, 0.8-1.2 mm, nearly smooth. 2n = 14, 28.
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Herbs perennial, 9-24 cm tall. Rhizomes elongate, slender. Stems glandular hairy. Basal leaves 1-4; petiole 1-8.3 cm, rigidly glandular hairy; leaf blade orbicular to cordate to reniform-cordate, 0.8-3.7 × 0.8-3.9 cm, both surfaces rigidly glandular hairy, base cordate, margin dentate, obscurely 5-7-lobed. Cauline leaves usually 1 or absent, shortly petiolate; leaf blade ca. 1.6 × 1.4 cm, rigidly glandular hairy. Inflorescence a raceme, 2-11 cm, several flowered; pedicels 1-5 mm, shortly glandular hairy. Sepals subovate, 1.6-2 mm, 1-veined, apex subacuminate. Petals yellowish green, ca. 4 mm, margin deeply pinnately ca. 9-cleft; segments linear. Stamens 10, shorter than sepals. Carpels 2, connate; ovary semi-inferior, broadly ovoid; stigmas 2-lobed. Fruit a capsule; carpels distally free, glandular hairy. Seeds few, black, shiny, narrowly ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jun-Sep. 2n = 14, 28.
Stems 0.5–2 dm, hairy below and glandular throughout; basal lvs rotund to reniform with cordate base, obscurely lobed, crenate, hairy; cauline lf 1 or none, ovate, sessile, few-toothed; racemes 2–10 cm; pedicels 1–5 mm; fls yellowish-green; pet 3–5 mm, very deeply pectinate-fimbriate, with divergent segments; seeds few, black, shining, 1 mm; 2n=28. Bogs and wet woods, usually in moss; Lab. to Mack., s. to Pa., Mich., Minn., and Mont.; e. Asia. May, June.
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Mature height (meter) 0.09 - 0.24
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Uses medicinal
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Therapeutic use Ear Medicine (leaf)
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Images

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Distribution

Mitella nuda world distribution map, present in Canada, China, France, Japan, Liberia, Mongolia, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:791967-1
WFO ID wfo-0001135373
COL ID 43P9K
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INPN ID 762023
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Synonyms

Mitella nuda f. intermedia Mitella prostrata Mitella reniformis Mitella cordifolia Tiarella unifolia Mitella nuda Mitella nuda f. countrymaniae