Botanical atlas
Foamflower
Tiarella cordifolia
This plant is kept in the atlas for identification and safety, not for use. Read the safety notes below before handling it, and keep it away from children, cats, and food.
Foamflower grows low and quiet on the forest floor, easy to overlook until its foamy white flower spikes catch the spring light. Some Iroquois communities are recorded as chewing the fresh leaves to soothe sore mouths and steeping the plant as a mild wash and tonic for kidney and bladder complaints. It never became a headline herb the way its woodland neighbors did, but it earned a quiet, steady place in the home remedies of people who lived close to the forest. Today it is better known and more widely used as a cherished native garden plant than as a medicine.
Safety.
Foamflower has no significant toxicity on record and is grown mainly as a garden plant rather than used medicinally.
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