Mitchella
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Mitchella is a small genus from the family Rubiaceae, native to the Americas and eastern Asia.
The genus Mitchella L., was named by Carolus Linnaeus after his friend John Mitchell (1711 - 1768), an English physician who lived in America and gave Linnaeus much valuable information on American flora.
It consists of a few glabrous or puberulous, creeping, rhizomatous herbs with white axillary flowers with funnel-shaped corolla. They prefer mildly acidic soils, growing in woods near pines or hemlock or mossy hummocks.
- Selected species
- Mitchella ovata DC (Ecuador)
- Mitchella repens L. (Partridge Berry; eastern North America, Central America)
- Mitchella undulata Siebold & Zucc. (Japan, Taiwan)
