Seasonal Wild Flowers

Fringecups

Tellima grandiflora

Saxifragaceae

April to August

It is thinly scattered throughought the country and is

most common in the West and parts of the South.

See the BSBI distribution map for Fringecups

It is a neophyte which was grown as a garden plant and

has been known as a naturalised garden escapes since

the early 1900s.

It grows in damp woods, hedgerows and on grass verges.

It is a rhizomatous, clump-forming, perennial herb growing

up to 60cm.

Flowers are bell-shaped on a nodding spike.

They have 5 jagged-toothed, recurved petals, which turn

red on aging.

It spreads by copious seed production.

The leaves are unstalked with heart-shaped lobes.

Fringecups are used for ground cover in gardening.

Fringecups - spike in roadside grass

Flowers with jagged-toothed petals

Close-up of style and stamens

Side view of jagged petals

Leaves and hairy stem