Trillium cuneatum

Trillium cuneatum is a herbaceous, long-lived and rhizomateuse plant of the family of the Liliaceae (traditional Classification) or Melanthiaceae (Classification APG II, 2003).

Description

This plant originating in the south-east of the United States flowers in spring in the fresh mountain forests of slope on especially calcareous ground. The petals from 3 to 6 cm are of variable color: greenish, yellowish, crimson, chestnut, sometimes two-tone. The acuminate oval sheets have very marked spots, which fade with the age. The fruit is a green bay with lines crimsons.

Surface of distribution

South of Kentucky and North Carolina in the Mississippi and Alabama.

Others

In English, his name is Broad Toadshade or Bloody Butcher . The variety luteum J.D. Freeman is with yellow or yellow flower lemon-yellow. Where them surface of distribution overlaps, this variety forms natural hybrids with Trillium luteum .

External bonds

Sources

Frederick W. Box, Jr. & Roberta B. Box, Trilliums , Timber Close, 1997 ISBN 0-88192-374-5

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