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Tiarella cordifolia (heartleaf foamflower)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Tiarella cordifolia, the heartleaf foamflower, heartleaved foamflower, Allegheny foamflower, false miterwort, or coolwort, is a species of herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to North America.
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Infraspecies

Tiarella cordifolia cordifolia
Tiarella cordifolia f. parviflora
Tiarella cordifolia typica
Tiarella cordifolia var. typica

Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  Can be used as a ground cover plant; It is rather slow to spread, though, and needs weeding for the first year or so; Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way; This is one of the most attractive and prolific ground cover plants;
Height [1]  8 inches (0.2 m)
Width [1]  20 inches (0.5 m)
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Providers

Pollinated by 
Apis mellifera (honey bee)[3]
Bombus bimaculatus (twospotted bumblebee)[3]
Bombylius major (Bee fly)[3]
Lasioglossum cressonii (Cresson's Dialictus)[3]
Osmia conjuncta[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0