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Nodding wakerobin

Trillium flexipes

Also called Drooping Trillium, Drooping Wakerobin, Nodding Trillium, White Trillium, Bent Trilllium, Declined Trillium, Gleason's Trillium

Nodding wakerobin
Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
Family
Melanthiaceae (Melanthi family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
S. Ontario to EC. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Trillium flexipes, known as the nodding wakerobin, bent trillium, or drooping trillium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is found from Minnesota to Ohio, south to Tennessee, with isolated (and sometimes rare) populations in New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and other states. It is an endangered species in Ontario and threatened in North Carolina.

Other Trillium plants

Giant white wakerobin · Narrowpetal wakerobin · Kamchatka Trillium · Bashful wakerobin · Whip-poor-will flower · Trillium channellii · Giant wakerobin · Wenatchee Mountains Trillium · Little sweet Betsy · Chattahoochee River wakerobin · Trailing wakerobin · Mottled wakerobin

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Trillium flexipes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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