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Mississippi River wakerobin

Trillium foetidissimum

Also called Mississippi River Trillium, Fetid Toadshade, Fetid Trillium, Stinking Trillium

Mississippi River wakerobin
Photo: Jody Shugart (iNaturalist.org user @terrapinjoe), CC BY 4.0

Trillium foetidissimum is a small perennial woodland wildflower from the Louisiana-Mississippi border, grown from horizontal rhizomes and blooming in early spring. It needs cool, shaded, moist woodland conditions and a rich, humus-heavy soil to thrive.

Family
Melanthiaceae (Melanthi family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist in spring and never let it dry out completely, while avoiding waterlogging.
Soil
Rich, moist, humus-rich woodland soil that drains well, such as leaf mould.
Temperature
Hardy in cool temperate conditions; protect rhizomes from deep freezing and avoid heat above about 30 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Louisiana to Mississippi
Climate
temperate

About

Trillium foetidissimum, also known as the Mississippi River wakerobin, stinking trillium, or fetid trillium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is found along the Louisiana–Mississippi border in a variety of habitats.

Trillium foetidissimum is a perennial herbaceous plant that blooms from early March to early April.

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 foetidissimum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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