Tellima grandiflora(Pursh) Douglas ex Lindl.

fringe cups

WFO wfo-0000459248 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Tellima grandiflora, photographed by Robyn Hanson
fig. a Robyn Hanson, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205925292

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 2,622 observations

Flowering observations of Tellima grandiflora by month
MonthObservations
Jan0
Feb1
Mar41
Apr689
May1480
Jun340
Jul67
Aug3
Sep1
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

Peak flowering in May, from 2,622 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Mitella acerifolia Schlecht. ex Ledeb.
  • Mitella grandiflora Pursh
  • Tellima breviflora Rydb.
  • Tellima grandiflora var. virescens Regel
  • Tellima nudicaulis Greene
  • Tellima odorata Howell
  • Tiarella alternifolia Fisch. ex Ser.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.