Spring Blooming Native Plants

Foamflowers are closely related to Coral-bells (botanical name Heuchera), with similar sprays of airy flowers during mid to late spring. The foliage of this species has heart-shaped green leaves with red veins, and clouds of white flowers when it blossoms. Having a running habit is make an excellent spreading groundcover for shady woodland areas. Being an evergreen, the foliage to to a bronze-red during the winter. It is very useful for edging with its long lasting flower spikes providing a pleasant appearance along pathways and walks.

Early season bees, pollinating flies, moths and butterflies visit the flower gathering pollen and nectar thereby providing sustainability for wildlife. Plants grow 1’ tall with an equal spread. They form dense clumps and small colonies from spreading leafy stems that root at the nodes. In spring airy flower racemes rise from the foliage to a height of 10-12”. The racemes contain small white starry florets that emerge from pinkish buds. Each floret has long stamens that impart a foamy or feathery appearance.

Tiarella cordifolia is indigenous to rich deciduous woodlands, hemlock or white cedar forests, open moist to slightly dry woods, seasonal floodplains, seeps, stream banks and open areas near woodland paths. Colonies of foamflower often follow courses of streams or creeks. Native to the United States; foamflowers grow in eastern North America through Quebec and Ontario, south to Nova Scotia, Maine and Georgia and west to Minnesota, Ohio Kentucky and Tennessee.

At Lincoln Landscaping cultivating the environment is our life and livelihood. It is our number one goal to help our clients create and maintain beautiful landscapes while reducing the impact on the environment. Whether you are interested in a pollinator landscape garden design and build or other landscaping or property management project; we can create for you an environmentally friendly, organic and beautiful property.