Mitella nuda - photos and description

Saskatchewan's Wildflowers


15 cm ruler for scale

Small flowers with 5 deeply incised petals, the flowers 1 cm in diameter, flowers grow in a loose raceme. Leaves are basal, long stalked, orbicular, crenate, with a cordate base. Leaves typically 35 mm wide and long. Leaves hairy both sides, stiff hairs grow perpendicular to the leaf on the upper surface. Stem pubescent.

Habitat is mossy, wet woods, in the boreal forest. Common.

Listed in the guides growing to a height of 20 cm, plant in above photo was 18 cm tall.

Took the photos June 22nd, mossy spruce woods, Nesbit Provincial Forest, 400 km north of our home in Regina, SK.

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