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Tufted Foamflower

Tiarella wherryi

Also called Wherry's Foamflower

Tufted Foamflower
Photo: Dinkum, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Saxifragaceae (Saxifrag family)
Grows as
Perennial
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
Kentucky to Alabama
Climate
temperate

About

Tiarella wherryi is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae. The specific name wherryi recognizes Edgar Wherry, the botanist who collected some of the first specimens in the early 1930s. Commonly called Wherry's foamflower, it is the southernmost of all species of Tiarella in the southeastern United States, where its range approaches the Gulf Coast in southern Alabama.

Where it grows

Tiarella wherryi is endemic to the southeastern United States, ranging from southern Kentucky to southern Alabama, and from there eastward into Georgia. Counties where the species is known to occur include:

Other Tiarella plants

Southern Foamflower · Heartleaf foamflower · Sail Leaf Foamflower · Asian Foam Flower · Northern Foamflower · Threeleaf foamflower · Foamflower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tiarella wherryi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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