View source for Mitella caulescens

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|accepted_name=Mitella caulescens
|accepted_authority=Nuttall in J. Torrey and A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer.
|place=1: 586. 1840 ,
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|common_names=Creeping mitrewort
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mitellastra caulescens
|authority=(Nuttall) Howell
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|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Mitella;Mitella caulescens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Saxifragaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mitella]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mitella caulescens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 77, 109
|treatment_page=page 112
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>usually stoloniferous. <b>Flowering</b> stems 13–45 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: 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. <b>Inflorescences</b> 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. <b>Pedicels</b> 2–8 mm, short stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: 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. <b>Seeds</b> reddish purple or dark reddish brown, 0.7–1 mm, pitted. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Deep woods, meadows, stream banks
|elevation=0-2100 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
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name=Mitella caulescens
|author=
|authority=Nuttall in J. Torrey and A. Gray
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|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Mitellastra caulescens
|basionyms=
|family=Saxifragaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Deep woods, meadows, stream banks
|elevation=0-2100 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer.
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|genus=Mitella
|species=Mitella caulescens
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