Trillium lancifolium

Trillium lancifolium 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 of the south-east of the the United States flowers in spring in the fresh forests in mountain and the alluvial plains. The linear-oblong petals from 3 to 7 cm are green, purple, chestnut or two-tone. The lancéolées sheets with decorative spots are reversed. The fruit is winged.

Surface of distribution

That and there in Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.

Others

In English his name is Lance-Leaved Trillium .

External bonds

Sources

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

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