Mitchella repens (partridgeberry)

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Mitchella repens, photographed by Jessica Turcotte — fig. a Jessica Turcotte, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205536350

Mitchella repens, photographed by Erik Schiff — fig. b Erik Schiff, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205831869

Mitchella repens, photographed by Jill DeVito, PhD — fig. c Jill DeVito, PhD, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204717670

Mitchella repens, photographed by Gus — fig. d Gus, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204411802

Mitchella repens, photographed by Anne Parker — fig. e Anne Parker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203955332

Mitchella repens, photographed by Larry Jensen — fig. f Larry Jensen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205568040

Mitchella repens, photographed by Clay Gibbons — fig. g Clay Gibbons, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203708122

Mitchella repens, photographed by Lynn Harper — fig. h Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203959886

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

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Flowering n = 11,106 observations

297

1471

3200

4433

1477

Flowering observations of Mitchella repens by month
Month	Observations
Jan	29
Feb	35
Mar	297
Apr	1471
May	3200
Jun	4433
Jul	1477
Aug	29
Sep	35
Oct	54
Nov	20
Dec	26

Peak flowering in Jun, from 11,106 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Disperma repens J.F.Gmel.
Mitchella repens f. leucocarpa Bissell
Mitchella repens f. repens
Mitchella repens var. alba Beal
Perdicesca repens (L.) Prov.
Perdicesea repens (L.) Prov.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.