Trillium

Trillium stamineum (Propeller toad shade, Wakerobin, Wood lily, Trinity flower, Propeller trillium, Blue Ridge wakerobin)
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Trillium
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or wake-robin(trl´m), any plant of the large genus Trillium, attractive spring wildflowers of the family Liliaceae ( family), native to North America and E Asia.

Trilliums are perfect planted between shrubs that provide both shade and shelter from the wind. Alternately, a shady border against a wall or fence is a good location.

Red Trillium, Trillium erectum
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Nodding Trillium
Trillium cernuum
The flowers of nodding trillium are easy to miss, as they hang beneath the leaves. The second photo shows what a blooming plant looks like from above.

Trillium catesbaei is a small to mid-sized trillium rarely more than a foot tall, frequently shorter, with pink or red stem. Each leaf has five prominent veins.

Trilliums are often grown in the dappled shade and moist soil of a woodland garden. Because of its small size, Trillium nivale is well-suited to cultivation in a rock garden if grown in partial shade and neutral to alkaline, gritty, humus-rich soil.

#640 Trillium underwoodii
Common Names: purple toadshade, sweet Betsy
Family: Liliaceae (lily Family)
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Trillium Grandiflorum (Liliaceae) -- blooms in early spring; the flowers may become pink-ish with age. (Photographed in WI) ...

Trillium erectum (L) and Trillium pendulum(Willd.)
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Trillium viride luteum : Yellow Trillium - Whole Plant
Viola pedata : Birdsfoot Violet - Whole Plant
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Trillium grandiflorum in the foreground and the smaller Thalictrum thalictroides in the background are both spring ephemerals of North American deciduous forests.

Trillium foetidissimum
Although I grew up in wooded areas most of my life (not abandoned or anything like those tarzan stories), I have always taken gardening in the shade for granted.

Trillium, bloodroot, and some other plants produce seeds with elaisomes, small appendages that provide food for ants. The ants disperse the flower seeds as they gather the elaisomes.
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Trillium albidum (Giant White Wakerobin)
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Paeonia wittmanniana ...

Trillium nivale ( Dwarf white wood lily )
Trillium ovatum ( Trinity Flower )
Trillium recurvatum ( Bloody butcher ) ...

4 Trilliums - Trillium Grandiflorum, Cernuum, Undulatum and Erectum
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Wild Trillium, in Maine. Photo: Ken Holmes
Wildflowers, once covering the entire country, are now scarce. Because plants are thriving in one location, it seems difficult to believe that they are not common everywhere.

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The difference between the daylily and the lily ...

3-5/ca. 80: Trillium (50, or 70 when circumscribed broadly). North Temperate (for map, see Farmer 2006). [Photos: collection.]
Synonymy: Paridaceae Dumortier, Trilliaceae Chevallier, nom. cons.

cernuum, Nodding Trillium
grandiflorum, Large Flower Trillium
Uvularia spp, Bellworts
grandiflora, Large Flower Bellwort
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Small-Flowered Trillium [English]: Trillium parviflorum
Small-Flowered White Morning Glory [English]: Ipomoea lacunosa
Small-Flowered Wood Rush [English]: Luzula parviflora
Small-Flowered Wood-Rush [English]: Luzula parviflora ...

Trillium, wakerobin (Trillium species)
True cedar (Cedrus species)
Trumpet gentian (Gentiana acaulis, Gentiana verna, Gentiana clusii)
Tuberous begonia (Begonia tuberosa)
Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
Tulip (Tulipa species) ...

To herald spring you could have firstly the trillium, or the wood lily, sometimes known as the wake-robin.

Stinking Benjamin (Trillium chloropetalum)
Stinking Billie (Dianthus barbatus 'Newport Pink')
Stinking Hellebore (Helleborus foetidus)
Stipa gigantea
Stipa ichu
Stipa ramosissima
Stock (Matthiola incana 'Trisomic Seven-Week') ...

Early snowdrops dangle in the first warm breezes, which encourage the flowers of hellebores, trilliums, bluebells, and primroses.

And what would springtime be without Trilliums? The ever-present Trillium grandiflorum can be found almost everywhere. Its three petaled, white flowers gracefully age to a rosy pink color over their gently arching 12-18" stems bearing three leaves.

spring beauty, wild ginger, bloodroot, Dutchman's breeches, hepatica, toothworts, and trilliums) occur in the same habitat as garlic mustard.

Red pasque flower (P. v. var. rubra) H 20 cm, W 30 cm, part shade to full sun, Zone 5
'Spring Beauty' squill (Scilla siberica 'Spring Beauty'), minor bulb, H W 15 cm, part shade to full sun, Zone 5
Great white trillium (Trillium grandiflorum), ...

laciniata, Dicentra cucullaria, Galium aparine, Geranium maculatum, Hydrophyllum virginianum, Osmorhiza claytonii, Phlox divaricata, Podophyllum peltatum, Sanguinaria canadensis, Sanicula gregaria, Smilacina racemosa, Thalictrum dioicum, Trillium ...

On the coast, western redcedar and flowering dogwood may also be present, with salal, Oregon-grape, western trillium and vanilla-leaf beneath.
These forests are often home to bears and cougars; owls and woodpeckers; and toads, frogs and salamanders.

Leucojum vernum Snowpake
More Snowdrops
Chionodoxa - Glory of the Snow
Crocus
Eranthis hyemalis - The Winter Aconite
Narcissus early types
Iris danfordiae and Iris reticulata varieties
Scilla
Trillium ...

Camassia.
Lily-of-the-valley.
Winter aconite (_Eranthis hycmalis_).
Dog-tooth violets (_Erythronium_).
Crown imperial (_Fritillaria Imperialis_).
Fritillary (_Fritillaria Mekagris_).
Trilliums.
Lilies.

Flowering plants occur in various forms from the grasses, trees, shrubs, and sedges to the soft-stemmed flowers. Their flowers can be just as varied from the tiny yellow flowers of Pennsylvania sedge to the showy flowers of woodland trilliums.

The trees are more commonly known as ash, oak, lime, beech, birch and northern arrowwood. Also found in this biome are wild flowers such as oxlip, bluebells, painted trillium and primrose.

potentially shading out seedlings and preventing the regeneration of native plants. Mature plants are usually surrounded by a carpet of seedlings, which also displace small native groundcovers such as violets (Viola spp.) and wakerobins (Trillium spp.

Spigelia marilandica - Indian Pink
Thalictrum spp. - Meadow Rue
Tiarella spp. - Foam Flower *
Tradescantia virginianae - Spiderwort *
Tricyrtis spp. - Toad Lily *
Trillium spp. - Wake Robin *
Viola spp. - Violet * ...

Lirio americano - Trillium erectum
Lirio atigrado - Lilium martagon
Lirio blanco - Lilium candidum
Lirio Cala - Zantedeschia aethiopica
Lirio cardeno - Iris germanica
Lirio común - Iris germanica
Lirio convalio - Convallaria majalis ...

See also: Green, May, Lily, Pink, Bells