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n. - Genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals.

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  • Trillium, the Mitella, or Bishop's-Cap, and the snowy Tiarella.
  • There is nothing of a bell-shape character about the flower, as in its nearest relative the Mitella.
  • Saxifriga, five species; Astilbe; Heuchera, five species; Tiarella and Mitella.
  • We propose that nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences contribute to reliable identification of reproductively isolated and cryptic species of Mitella.
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