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Tellima

Tellima

9.9
A hardy plant that lives for many years with divided leaves and small drooping flowers
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • Gardeners often choose Tellima for its delicate, nodding flowers and attractive foliage.

Examples

  • The Tellima plants thrive in shady woodland gardens in the Pacific Northwest.

  • The Tellima plant blooms beautifully in the spring.

  • Tellima is sometimes called fringecup due to the fringed edges of its blossoms.

  • I bought a Tellima for my garden.

  • Gardeners often choose Tellima for its delicate, nodding flowers and attractive foliage.

  • The Tellima plants thrive in shady woodland gardens in the Pacific Northwest.

  • Tellima is sometimes called fringecup due to the fringed edges of its blossoms.

Compounds

Tellima affinis
  • Specialized
9.9

A garden plant that lives many years with white flowers that spread their petals

Tellima grandiflora
  • Specialized
9.9

A plant that grows in clumps with leaves mostly at the base and pale, fringed flowers on long spikes

Surface Forms

Tellima singular
Tellimas plural

Etymology

Tellima is the scientific name for a small woodland flower often called fringecup because its petals have 'fringed' edges. A helpful way to remember Tellima is to picture its delicate, nodding flowers in shady gardens, so the name brings to mind this hardy, fringe-edged plant.