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creeping mitrewort, slightstem miterwort

Habit Plants usually stoloniferous.
Flowering stems

13–45 cm.

Leaves

petiole 1.5–14 cm, short stipitate-glandular and, usually, long stipitate-glandular, longer hairs spreading to retrorse, white;

blade broadly cordate to broadly ovate, ± as long as wide, 1.2–6.5(–8.5) × 1.4–7(–8.2) cm, margins 3-, 5-, or 7-lobed, crenate-dentate, irregularly ciliate, apex of terminal lobe acute to obtuse, surfaces short stipitate-glandular and sparsely long stipitate-glandular;

cauline leaves 1–3, proximal or mid cauline, alternate, sessile or petiolate, blade 0.3–4.3(–6) × 0.4–4.4(–7) cm.

Inflorescences

1–2(–4), remotely 5–25-flowered, 1(–2) flowers per node, (anthesis basipetalous), not secund, 13–45 cm, short stipitate-glandular and sparsely long stipitate-glandular proximally, short stipitate-glandular distally.

Pedicels

2–8 mm, short stipitate-glandular.

Flowers

hypanthium broadly campanulate, 1.5–2 × 3–5.5 mm;

sepals spreading or recurved, greenish, deltate-ovate, 0.9–1.5 × 1.4–2 mm;

petals whitish green or greenish, sometimes purple tinged proximally, 5–9-lobed, 3–4 mm, lobes linear, lateral lobes spreading;

stamens 5, opposite sepals;

filaments usually purple proximally and white distally, sometimes entirely white, 0.6–0.9 mm;

anthers 0.2–0.4 × 0.2–0.4 mm;

ovary 1/2 inferior;

styles erect or spreading, cylindric, 0.8–1.1 mm;

stigmas unlobed.

Seeds

reddish purple or dark reddish brown, 0.7–1 mm, pitted.

2n

= 14.

Mitella caulescens

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Deep woods, meadows, stream banks
Elevation 0-2100 m (0-6900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 112.
Parent taxa Saxifragaceae > Mitella
Sibling taxa
M. breweri, M. diphylla, M. diversifolia, M. nuda, M. ovalis, M. pentandra, M. stauropetala, M. trifida
Synonyms Mitellastra caulescens
Name authority Nuttall: in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 586. 1840 ,
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