Tiarella cordifoliaL.

Heartleaf Foamflower

WFO wfo-0000459230 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f

Tiarella cordifolia, photographed by Ashwin Srinivasan
fig. a Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-12 / obs. 66696694
Tiarella cordifolia, photographed by Carol Ann McCormick
fig. b Carol Ann McCormick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63779912
Tiarella cordifolia, photographed by Bradley Saul
fig. c Bradley Saul, CC0 1.0 / obs. 7214596
Tiarella cordifolia, photographed by Carol Ann McCormick
fig. d Carol Ann McCormick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121383357
Tiarella cordifolia, photographed by Carol Ann McCormick
fig. e Carol Ann McCormick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 17518639
Tiarella cordifolia, photographed by Carol Ann McCormick
fig. f Carol Ann McCormick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33316590

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 251 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 251 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Tiarella cordifolia f. parviflora Fernald
  • Tiarella cordifolia f. subaequalis Lakela
  • Tiarella cordifolia f. tridentata Lakela
  • Tiarella cordifolia subsp. collina Wherry
  • Tiarella cordifolia subsp. typica (Lakela) Wherry
  • Tiarella cordifolia var. collina Wherry
  • Tiarella cordifolia var. laciniata Regel
  • Tiarella cordifolia var. typica Lakela

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.