Calflora: Mitella caulescens

Mitella caulescens Nutt.

slightstemmed miterwort, stemmed miterwort

Mitella caulescens, a dicot, is a perennial herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

It was included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list [4.2] (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA; common elsewhere). 7th Edition / 8th Edition

Communities:	Mixed Evergreen Forest, Yellow Pine Forest, Douglas-Fir Forest, wetland-riparian
Wetlands:	Equally likely to occur in wetlands or non wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]
Elevation:	between 0 and 5577 feet
Family:	SAXIFRAGACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Mitella found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by PLANTS + JM93
TJM2: accepted name:		Mitellastra caulescens

NOTE: Mitella caulescens is not an active name in the Calflora species table.

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Del Norte: 3 / 3 CCH Humboldt: 21 / 19 CCH Mendocino: 16 / 10 CCH Siskiyou: 3 / 3 CCH Sonoma: 1 / 0 CCH Tehama: 2 / 2 CCH Trinity: 1 / 1 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Mitella caulescens from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (MICA5)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
CNPS Inventory of rare and endangered plants
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database