Mitchella

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Rubiaceae
Subfamilia: Rubioideae
Tribus: Mitchelleae
Genus: Mitchella
Species: M. repens – M. undulata
Name

Mitchella L.
Vernacular names
English: Mitchella
español: Mitchella
日本語: ツルアリドオシ属
português: Mitchella
中文: 蔓虎刺屬

Mitchella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found from China to temperate eastern Asia, and from eastern Canada to Guatemala.[1]

The genus Mitchella was named by Carl Linnaeus after his friend John Mitchell (1711–1768), an English physician who lived in America and gave Linnaeus much valuable information on the American flora.

It consists of a two species of glabrous or puberulous, creeping, rhizomatous herbs with white axillary flowers with funnel-shaped corollas. They prefer mildly acidic soils, growing in woods near pines, hemlock or mossy hummocks.

The fruits of Mitchella repens, known as partridge berries, are eaten in some places.
Species

Mitchella repens L. - partridge berry - from eastern Canada to Guatemala
Mitchella undulata Siebold & Zucc. - China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan

References

"Mitchella in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae". Retrieved 13 April 2016.