Mitella
Mitella spp.
Special Features
Features delicate, star-shaped flowers and rounded leaves. This native is perfect for naturalizing in woodland gardens, offering subtle beauty in a shade setting.
Plant Specifications
Our team will help you integrate this plant into your landscape design
Growing Mitella on Martha's Vineyard
Mitella diphylla, the bishop's cap or miterwort, is a refined native woodland perennial that brings subtle, intricate beauty to the shaded garden floors of Martha's Vineyard's interior properties. Its delicate white flower spikes in spring, held above neat heart-shaped foliage, are a collector's delight in the naturalistic woodland gardens of up-island properties in West Tisbury and Chilmark, where consistent moisture and humus-rich soils provide ideal growing conditions. The plant spreads modestly to form a refined ground-covering colony, tolerating the island's characteristically acidic soils without complaint.
Deer largely ignore it, making it reliable in open, unfenced garden situations throughout the island. Estate Care teams include it in botanically rich shade garden compositions where native character and understated elegance are design priorities.
