mitrewort

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Any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter.

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mitrewort - any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter bishop's cap, miterwort herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Mitella, Mitella - genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals Mitella diphylla, fairy cup - miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers five-point bishop's cap, Mitella pentandra - small plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes; northwestern North America to California and Colorado