Definition of Fringe cups

1. Noun. 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.

Exact synonyms: False Alumroot, Tellima Grandiflora
Generic synonyms: Wild Flower, Wildflower
Group relationships: Genus Tellima, Tellima

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fringe Cups

frillers
frillier
frillies
frilliest
frilling
frillings
frills
frilly
frine
fringe
fringe-toed lizard
fringe-y
fringe benefit
fringe benefits
fringe bush
fringe cups (current term)
fringe group
fringe groups
fringe tree
fringed
fringed gecko
fringed gentian
fringed loosestrife
fringed orchid
fringed orchis
fringed pink
fringed polygala
fringed poppy mallow
fringeless

Literary usage of Fringe cups

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"... rather common: Coast Ranges. Var. BOLANDERI Jepson. Petals entire or with a small tooth on each side. 3. T. grandiflora (Pursh) Dougl. FRINGE-CUPS. ..."

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