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Tiarella wherryi

Tufted Foamflower · Wherry's Foamflower

Family SaxifragaceaeGenus Tiarella

Bottlebrush spikes of pale pink flowers with long stamens, above mounds of lobed leaves veined dark red.
The whole plantDinkumCC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Habit
perennialPlants of the World Online
Flower
Pale pinkRead from the photograph on this page
Native range
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, TennesseeGBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Read from the photograph on this page — Deno's Garden; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Worth knowing

  • Wherry's foamflower is named for Edgar Wherry, who collected some of the first specimens in the early 1930s. It is the southernmost foamflower in the southeastern United States, reaching almost to the Gulf Coast in southern Alabama. Wikipedia: Tiarella wherryi

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty High Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Warm moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 70°F 21°C Light: dark

  2. Cold moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 40°F 4°C

  3. Warm moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 70°F 21°C Light: light

about 6 months from start to step 3. Germination happens during step 3, in 63 days.

62% germination in 35–63 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Tiarella p. 221Public domain
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Tiarella (Saxifragaceae). In the two species studied germination, required light and DS was fatal. T. wherryi germ. 70D-40-70L(62% in 5-9 w). Germination would presumably have been high in 70L and 70D GA-3 in view of the results with the closely related
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Tiarella p. 221. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

Germination trials

Readers’ own records of sowing this species, published after review. Share your trial · All trials

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