Fringecups - Tellima grandiflora
Clump forming plant with bluntly lobed, rounded leaves and erect racemes reaching 75cm tall bearing small, cream, fringed, bell-shaped flowers which may fade to light red.
Sometimes naturalises from cultivated stock. Rocky places and moist wooded areas.
Flowering late spring and early summer.
Perennial
Widespread, but most frequent in northern and western Britain.
Uncommon in the wild in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Jeremy Robson
Mountsorrel
07 May 2024
stepgray4
Charnwood Lodge
22 May 2023
Dylan
Melton Priors Close
25 April 2025
charnwoodspots
Markfield, Leicester Rd, Land to the north
02 May 2022
Fringecups
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Species profile
- Common names
- Fringecups
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Saxifragales
- Family:
- Saxifragaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 12
- First record:
- 19/05/2018 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 09/05/2025 (Cann, Alan)
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Dylan
Melton Priors Close
25 April 2025
AJ Cann
Leicester Attenborogh Arboretum
09 May 2025
AJ Cann
Leicester Attenborogh Arboretum
09 May 2025
Dylan
Melton Priors Close
25 April 2025
Dylan
Melton Memorial Gardens
26 May 2023
Fringecups
Graham Calow
Burbage, Featherstone Drive
13 May 2022
