Tiarella trifoliata

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Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon, USA (23 August)

Tiarella trifoliata, the three-leaf foamflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae.[1]Template:R/superscript The specific name trifoliata means "having three leaflets",[2]Template:R/superscript a characteristic of two of the three recognized varieties. Also known as the laceflower or sugar-scoop,[3]Template:R/superscript the species is found in shaded, moist woods in western North America.

Description

Tiarella trifoliata is a perennial dicotyledonous herb that flowers in the late spring. The flowers are bell-shaped, white and solitary forming an elongated, leafless panicle. The calyx lobes are 1.5–2.5 mm and petals are 3–4 mm. Basal leaves are 15–80 mm long and up to 120 mm wide, trifoliate or palmately 3- to 5-lobed. Cauline leaves are infrequent and much smaller.[4]Template:R/superscript

The typical variety of Tiarella trifoliata (var. trifoliata) has petiolate leaves with three leaflets per leaf (i.e., trifoliate). The cut-leaved foamflower (var. laciniata) also has trifoliate leaves with petioles, but unlike the typical variety, it has deep lobes more than half the length of the leaflet. The one-leaf foamflower (var. unifoliata) has sessile, simple leaves (rarely trifoliate).[1]Template:R/superscript

Taxonomy

Tiarella trifoliata was first described by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1753.[5]Template:R/superscript Its type specimen was collected by Georg Steller on Cape St. Elias, Kayak Island, Alaska in 1742, but that specimen is now lost. A specimen collected from Sitka, Alaska has been designated as the neotype for this species.[6]Template:R/superscript

In 1832, William Hooker described two additional species of Tiarella in western North America (T. laciniata and T. unifoliata),[7]Template:R/superscript[8]Template:R/superscript including two hand-drawn illustrations in his description.[9]Template:R/superscript[10]Template:R/superscript John Torrey and Asa Gray recognized all three species (T. trifoliata, T. laciniata, T. unifoliata) in their treatment of genus Tiarella in 1840.Template:Sfnp

In 1905, Per Axel Rydberg described T. californica based on an earlier description of a species thought to belong to genus Heuchera.[11]Template:R/superscript All four species (T. trifoliata, T. laciniata, T. unifoliata, T. californica) were included in a taxonomy proposed by Olga Lakela in 1937.Template:Sfnp

Based on Hooker's species description, William Efner Wheelock renamed T. laciniata Hook.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". as a variety of Tiarella trifoliata (var. laciniata) in 1896.[12]Template:R/superscript Similarly, Federico Kurtz renamed T. unifoliata Hook.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". as Tiarella trifoliata var. unifoliata in 1894.[13]Template:R/superscript Flora of North America recognized the varieties (var. laciniata and var. unifoliata) in an influential treatment of genus Tiarella published in 2009.[14]Template:R/superscript As of October 2022Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the varieties (not the species) are widely recognized:[1]Template:R/superscript[15]Template:R/superscript[16]Template:R/superscript[17]Template:R/superscript[18]Template:R/superscript[19]Template:R/superscript[20]Template:R/superscript

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Likewise Tiarella californica (Kellogg) Rydb.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". is considered to be a synonym of T, trifoliata var. laciniata.

Distribution

In western North America, Tiarella trifoliata prefers shaded, moist, sometimes dense woods up to Script error: No such module "convert"..[1]Template:R/superscript It ranges from northern California through western Canada northward to Alaska, and eastward to Montana.[16]Template:R/superscript[21]Template:R/superscript[22]Template:R/superscript Within this region, the varieties of T. trifoliata have overlapping ranges:

  • Tiarella trifoliata var. laciniata:[23]Template:R/superscript British Columbia; Oregon, Washington
  • Tiarella trifoliata var. trifoliata:[24]Template:R/superscript Alberta, British Columbia; Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
  • Tiarella trifoliata var. unifoliata:[25]Template:R/superscript Alberta, British Columbia; Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington

T. trifoliata var. trifoliata and T. trifoliata var. unifoliata range north to Alaska, while T. trifoliata var. laciniata only ranges as far north as Vancouver Island in British Columbia.[26]

Conservation

The conservation status of Tiarella trifoliata is globally secure (G5).[17]Template:R/superscript Each variety is secure as well.

References

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Bibliography

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