Trillium undulatum Willd.

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By Larry Stritch

Painted trillium is an herbaceous, long-lived, woodland, perennial wildflower with a broad distribution across New England, New York and Pennsylvania thence south in a narrow band in the Appalachian Mountains from West Virginia and Virginia to the high mountains of Georgia; and in Canada from Ontario, Quebec and the maritime provinces to Nova Scotia.

“Trillium”, from the Latin tri, refers to the flower parts occurring in threes; “llium” from the Latin liliaceous, refers to the funnel-shaped flower; and, “flexipes”, from the Latin undulatum (i.e., wavy) refers to the petals’ wavy margins.

Trillium undulatum has a short, thick rhizome from which a sheath (highly modified leaf called a cataphyll) enclosed scape (stalk of the inflorescence) emerges from the ground to 10 to 45 centimeters tall. It has a single, terminal flower. Leaves (actually bracts) are three, dark green infused with maroon, petiolate, lanceolate, acuminate, 5 to 17 centimeters long and 4 to 12 centimeters wide. The flower is pedicellate, with the pedicel ascending to erect. Sepals are three, dark red to dark maroon green, spreading, 1.5 to 4 centimeters long, and 0.5 to 1.0 centimeters wide. Petals are three, wavy-margined, white with a central red to reddish purple splotch at the base, lanceolate to obovate, acuminate, 1.4 to 1.8 centimeters long. Fruit is a scarlet, three-angled berry, 1 to 2 centimeters long.

Trillium undulatum flowers from early to late spring (dependant on latitude and/or elevation). The species occurs in mesic, northern hardwoods, mixed conifer-hardwood forests, to pinewoods and high-elevation red spruce forests in the central Appalachian Mountains in very acidic humus-rich soils.

 

Painted Trillium (usda.gov)

 

 

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