Partridgeberry
Mitchella repens L.
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5 cm
- wide
- 36 cm
Rubiaceae
Also called Partridge Berry, Twinberry, Turkeyberry, Running box, Pigeon plum
Formerly Disperma repens, Perdicesca repens, Perdicesea repens
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Canada to GuatemalaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3 cm to 8 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 41 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Mora de codorniz
- root
- MITREP
- Russian
- Митчелла ползучая
- Czech
- mičela plazivá
- Chinese (China)
- 蔓虎刺
- Ojibwa
- Binemiin (Binewimiin)
- French
- Pain-de-perdrix
- Swedish
- rapphönsbär
- Chinese
- 蔓虎刺
- German
- Echte Rebhuhnbeere
- Finnish
- amerikanpyynmarja
- Slovak
- brusnicovka plazivá
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Mitchella repens (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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