Mitella stauropetala
Smallflower Miterwort

Family: Saxifragaceae (Saxifragaceae family)

Photo taken at Tumwater Canyon, open wooded area, close to stream (50 to 100 meters away)

Flowers:

racemes strongly secund, 10 to 50 flowered; sepals with a simple central vein and branched lateral veins, spreading at the tips; petals mostly 2 to 4 mm, whitish, petal blade trilobed into spreading or ascending mostly filiform segments; calyx 4 to 6 mm, cup shaped to campanulate; stamens 5, opposite sepals and alternate to the petals; scapes rarely with leaves

Leaves:

blades reniform to cordate-ovate, broader than long; shallowly rounded-lobed, terminal segments not acute

Plant:

perennial

Habitat:

Distribution of species:

eastern Washington and northeast Oregon to the Rocky Mountains in Montana to Colorado

Distribution of genus:

12 species: temperate to arctic North America and Asia