Fringe cups
Tellima grandiflora (Pursh) Douglas ex Lindl.
- light
- Any light
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 75 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Saxifragaceae
Also called Fragrant Fringecup, Bigflower Tellima, Fringecup, Bigflower tellima
Formerly Mitella acerifolia, Mitella grandiflora, Tellima breviflora, Tellima nudicaulis, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Aleutian Is. to W. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Sun or shadeRead from RHS, one source
- Height
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, pink, purple, greenRead from RHS and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: RHS cream, pink; Wikipedia green, purple, white
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese (China)
- 大花饰缘花
- Danish
- Storblomstret biskopshat
- Dutch
- Franjekelk, Grote tellima
- Finnish
- tellima
- Swedish
- anagrambräcka
- Chinese
- 大穗杯花, 钸缘花
- Russian
- Теллима крупноцветковая
- French
- tellime à grandes fleurs
- German
- Falsche Alraunenwurzel, Großblütige Fransenblume
- Spanish
- Tellima de Flor Grande
- Slovak
- mitrovka veľkokvetá
- root
- q̓ʷiq̓ʷəy̓áqʷ
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Tellima grandiflora (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.