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Showing posts with label Foam Flower. Show all posts
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Monday, August 10, 2009

Video - Tiarellas

Another fantastic perennial that performs well in the shade. They have great foliage, great flowers and they can handle the wind!!!

Tiarella (Foam Flower) Pictures

Pictures sourced from Googled Images.

Plant of the Day - Tiarella (Foamflower)

Tiarella or Foamflower
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Saxifragaceae
Genus: Tiarella L.

Species: See below

The Foamflowers (Tiarella) are a popular species of wildflower and garden plant. They belong to the Saxifrage family (Saxifragaceae). Some species are:

Tiarella cordifolia (Heartleaved Foamflower)
Tiarella trifoliata (Threeleaved Foamflower)
Tolmiea (piggyback plant)
Many hybrids are known and cultivated

Tiarella trifoliata (Threeleaf Foamflower) is a dicot in the family Saxifragaceae. It is a perennial herb that grows in the late spring. It is endemic to the low to moderate elevation moist forests of western North America.

The flowers are bell-shaped, white, solitary from an elongate, leafless panicle. The calyx lobes are 1.5–2.5 mm and petals are 3-4 mm. Basal leaves are 15-80 mm long and up to 120 mm wide, trifoliate or palmately 3- to 5-lobed. Cauline leaves are infrequent and much smaller.

Source: Wikipedia>