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Jeweled wakerobin

Trillium simile

Also called Confusing Trillium, Jeweled Trillium, Sweet White Trillium, Jewelled Wakerobin

Jeweled wakerobin
Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
Family
Melanthiaceae (Melanthi family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
E. Tennessee to N. Georgia
Climate
temperate

About

Trillium simile, the jeweled wakerobin, is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is endemic to the southeastern United States. It is also known as sweet white wake-robin, sweet white trillium and confusing trillium.

Where it grows

Trillium simile is endemic to the southeastern United States. It occurs in the southern Appalachian Mountains in the U.S. states of Tennessee, Georgia, North, and South Carolina. It prefers moist humus-rich soils at the edges of Rhododendron thickets in mature forests. It is found at elevations of 500–700 meters (1,600–2,300 feet).

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 simile 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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