Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Saxifragales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Tiarella stolonifera
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
This is a newly described species, described by Nesom in 2021. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Five species of Tiarella are present in the eastern United States! The main features distinguishing them are presence/absence of stolons, shape of the basal leaves, and presence/absence of leaves on the flowering stem. When the plants are sorted by these physical characters, the five entities are remarkably consistent in geography, showing sharp boundaries with very little overlap. Each of the five tiarellas fits the generally understood definition of “species” – a population system distinct in appearance from others and genetically discrete, forming few or no hybrids with other population systems. Read more in New Species of Foamflower (Nesom, 2022).
SYNONYMOUS WITH Taxonomy of Tiarella (Saxifragaceae) in the eastern USA (Nesom, 2021)
Tiarella stolonifera
INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8 (2009)
Tiarella cordifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 094-12-001a?:
Tiarella cordifolia var. cordifolia FAMILY Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Tiarella cordifolia
COMMON NAME:
Northern Foamflower, Creeping Foamflower
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USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969 mpa_page_251
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_tico_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Tiarella stolonifera
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Taxonomy of Tiarella (Saxifragaceae) in the eastern USA (Nesom, 2021)
Tiarella stolonifera
INCLUDED WITHIN
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
Tiarella cordifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 094-12-001a?:
Tiarella cordifolia var. cordifolia
FAMILY
Saxifragaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Tiarella cordifolia
4803
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist forests, cove forests, rock outcrops, well-drained bottomland forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina
Uncommon
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Stoloniferous
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
4-5 lobed calyx with campanulate tube
5 petals
10 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p180?
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p178?
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p145?
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p024?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p115?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p144?
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p066?
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