Accession Data

Tiarella polyphylla

Common Name: Foamflower

Family: Saxifragaceae

Country of Origin: Asia

Description: Herbs 20-45 cm tall. Rhizomes creeping, dark brown, 3-6 mm in diam. Stems simple, densely glandular hairy. Leaves mostly basal; cauline leaves few. Basal leaves with petiole 2-12 cm, densely glandular hairy, base sheathlike; leaf blade cordate, 2-8 × 2.5-10 cm, palmately 3-5-lobed, both surfaces glandular hairy, base cordate, margin irregularly dentate, apex acute. Cauline leaves 2 or 3, similar to basal leaves but smaller and petiole shorter. Raceme 8-25 cm, densely glandular hairy. Flowers whitish, small; pedicel ca. 1 cm, glandular hairy. Sepals erect, ovate, ca. 1.5 × 0.8 mm, abaxially and marginally shortly glandular hairy, 3- to many veined, apex subacuminate. Petals absent. Stamens ca. 2.5 mm; filaments subulate. Carpels unequal, connate proximally; ovary shallowly subsuperior, appearing almost completely superior. Capsule 7-12 mm. Seeds few, dark brown, ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm. Fl. Apr-Nov. 2n = 14.3

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 5-7

Accession #: 201900017

Accession Date: 2019-06-12 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2305

Quantity: 4

Source: Bonn 2019 - NP-0-BONN-35913

Provenance:

IPEN# NP-0-BONN-35913
Nepal, Between Simbua Khola & Omje Khola, Shady Abies / Tsuga forest,
3000 m, 882, 22.09.1989

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: core eudicots

Order: Saxifragales

Family: Saxifragaceae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, 05 February, 2019.
  2. Tiarella polyphylla at ARS-GRIN Taxonomy. Last accessed on Tuesday, 05 February, 2019.
  3. Flora of China. Last accessed on Wednesday, 12 June, 2019.

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Tiarella polyphylla