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Tellima

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Noun1.Tellima - genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers; western North America
rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
family Saxifragaceae, Saxifragaceae, saxifrage family - a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae
false alumroot, fringe cups, Tellima grandiflora - plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho


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barriers to hybridization between Tellima grandiflora and Tolmeia menziesii (Saxifragaceae).
Herbaceous perennials are not quite so easy, but in dense shade consider Ajuga, Anemone japonica, Waldsternia ternate, Tiarella, Tellima, Pullmonaria saccharata, Hosta, Aruncu dioicus, lily of the valley, Iris foetidissima and Lamium maculatum.
Epimediums, Bergenias and Tellima have tough evergreen leaves rich in light-catching chlorophyll and they too flower before the trees leaf up.
 
 
 
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