Sometimes stoloniferous herb with stems to about 30 cm tall. Leaves ovate, cordate, to about 10 cm long with toothed or 3-5-lobed margins, the colour often purple-red and the stalks to about 10 cm long. Flowers with petals 4-8 mm long, white, occasionally reddish; late spring to early summer. Fruit a capsule, 0.5-1 cm long.

T. wherryi Lakela is not stoloniferous.

E North America.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Saxifragaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.