OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Saxifragales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Tiarella cordifolia   FAMILY Saxifragaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tiarella cordifolia var. cordifolia   FAMILY Saxifragaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Taxonomy of Tiarella (Saxifragaceae) in the eastern USA (Nesom, 2021)

Tiarella cordifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Tiarella cordifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8 (2009)

Tiarella cordifolia

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Tiarella cordifolia var. collina

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Tiarella cordifolia var. cordifolia

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 094-12-001a & b:

Tiarella cordifolia var. cordifolia   FAMILY Saxifragaceae

INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)

Tiarella cordifolia var. collina

INCLUDED WITHIN Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Tiarella cordifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Tiarella cordifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Piedmont Foamflower, Heartleaf Foamflower


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image of Tiarella cordifolia, Piedmont Foamflower, Heartleaf Foamflower

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_tico_001_lvd

        

image of Tiarella cordifolia, Piedmont Foamflower, Heartleaf Foamflower

Keith Bradley    kab_t_cordifolia_5192

April    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

The showy raceme of white-petaled flowers has 10 exserted stamens producing a bottlebrush look, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999).


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image of Tiarella cordifolia, Piedmont Foamflower, Heartleaf Foamflower

JK Marlow    jkm060506_148

May    Pickens County    SC

Clemson Forest

Leaves usually ~ as long as wide, usually w obtuse to rounded lobes, terminal lobe not extended, per New Species of Foamflower (Nesom, 2022).

image of Tiarella cordifolia, Piedmont Foamflower, Heartleaf Foamflower

JK Marlow    jkm070506_037

May    Gaston County    NC

Redlair Farms

Fruit a two-parted capsule, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Tiarella cordifolia   FAMILY Saxifragaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tiarella cordifolia var. cordifolia   FAMILY Saxifragaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Taxonomy of Tiarella (Saxifragaceae) in the eastern USA (Nesom, 2021)
Tiarella cordifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Tiarella cordifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 8
Tiarella cordifolia

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Tiarella cordifolia var. collina

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Tiarella cordifolia var. cordifolia

INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 094-12-001a & b:
Tiarella cordifolia var. cordifolia   FAMILY Saxifragaceae

INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968)
Tiarella cordifolia var. collina

INCLUDED WITHIN Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Tiarella cordifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Tiarella cordifolia

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1511

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist forests, cove forests, rock outcrops, well-drained bottomland forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Carolina Piedmont (rare in elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Nonstoloniferous

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
4-5 lobed calyx with campanulate tube
5 petals
10 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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