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bigflower tellima, fragrant fringecup, fringe cups, fringecup, large-flower fringecup

Leaves

stipules sheathing, greenish, ca. 5 mm, membranous;

petiole 3–30 cm;

blade 3.5–10 cm, ultimate margins ciliate.

Inflorescences

40–90 cm, densely stipitate-glandular or glandular-hispid;

bracts subtending pedicels scalelike.

Flowers

hypanthium campanulate to widely urceolate, 4.5–9 mm, stipitate-glandular;

sepals erect, elliptic, 1–3 mm, apex acute;

petals erect proximally, spreading to reflexed distally, obovate, 5–7-lobed, 3–7 mm, lobes usually linear;

stamens included, 0.8–1 mm;

filaments 0.5 mm;

styles included, 1–1.5 mm.

Capsules

ovoid, 7–8 mm.

Seeds

100–150, 0.8–1 mm.

2n

= 14.

Tellima grandiflora

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Moist forests, thickets, meadows, rocky slopes, often near streams
Elevation 0-2000 m [0-6600 ft]
Distribution
from FNA
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion

Tellima grandiflora is found in moist, shaded sites from Alaska and British Columbia to California south of San Francisco. It resembles species of Mitella in its finely pinnatifid petals but is distinguished from most of them by the two to three conspicuous, alternate, cauline leaves in Tellima. It is distinguished from M. caulescens by the latter’s basipetalous anthesis.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 8, p. 77.
Parent taxa Saxifragaceae > Tellima
Synonyms Mitella grandiflora, T. odorata
Name authority (Pursh) Douglas ex Lindley: Bot. Reg. 14: plate 1178. (1828)
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