NC Native Plant Sociey:
Trilliums
NC Native Trillium Plants
Thumbnail | Scientific Name | Common Name | State Rank (*) | State Status (*) |
Fed. Status (*) |
Bloom Time |
Bloom Area (*) |
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Trillidium undulatum [= Trillium undulatum] | Painted Trillium, Striped Wake-robin | No U.S. Status Listed | April - May | Mountains | |||
Trillium catesbyi [=Trillium catesbaei] | Catesby's Trillium, Bashful Wakerobin, Bashful Trillium, | No U.S. Status Listed | Mar - June | Mountains, Piedmont | |||
Trillium cuneatum | Purple Toadshade, Sweet Betsy, Little Sweet Trillium, Little Sweet Betsy, Bloody Butcher | No U.S. Status Listed | March - April | Piedmont, Mountains | |||
Trillium discolor | Pale Yellow Trillium, Mottled Trillium, Pale Trillium, Small Yellow Toadshade. | No U.S. Status Listed | March - April - May | Mountains | |||
Trillium erectum | Wake Robin, Red Trillium, Purple Trillium, Stinking Benjamin, Stinking Willie, Birthwort | No U.S. Status Listed | Apr - Jun | Mountains | |||
Trillium flexipes | Bent Trillium, Bent White Trillium, Declined Trillium | No U.S. Status Listed | Apr | Mountains | |||
Trillium grandiflorum | Large-flowered Trillium, White Trillium, Great White Trillium | No U.S. Status Listed | April - May | Mountains, Piedmont | |||
Trillium luteum | Yellow Trillium, Yellow Toadshade, Wax Trillium, Lemon-scented Trillium | No U.S. Status Listed | Mar - June | Mountains | |||
Trillium pusillum | Carolina Least Trillium, Dwarf Wake-robin, Dwarf White Flowering Trillium | No U.S. Status Listed | March - April - May | Statewide (Mountains, Piedmont, Coast) | |||
Trillium recurvatum | Prairie Trillium, Prairie Wake-robin, Toadshade, Bloody Noses | No U.S. Status Listed | March - April - May | Mountains, Piedmont | |||
Trillium rugelii [split from Trillium cernuum] | Southern Nodding Trillium, Ill-scented Wakerobin, Ill-scented Trillium, | No U.S. Status Listed | April - May | Mountains | |||
Trillium sessile | Sessile Trillium, Toad Trillium, Sessile Toadshade | No U.S. Status Listed | March - April | Mountains | |||
Trillium simile | Sweet White Trillium, Jeweled Wake-robin, Confused Trillium | No U.S. Status Listed | March - April - May | Mountains | |||
Trillium sulcatum | Southern Red Trillium, Barksdale's Trilliam, Furrowed Wake-robin | No U.S. Status Listed | April - May | Mountains | |||
Trillium vaseyi | Sweet Trillium, Vasey's Trillium, Sweet Beth | No U.S. Status Listed | February - March - April | Mountains |
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Read this excellent paper on Trilliums prepared by one of our Shinn Grant winners:
A STUDY OF THE SYSTEMATIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEMBERS OF
THE TRILLIUM ERECTUM COMPLEX
by Christina Pampkin Stoehrel
NC Native Trillium with varieties and forma
This list was derived from a Trillium taxa list on www.trilliumresearch.org. I added a couple of items that was not on it that came from Weakley's list (the var 4 & 5 of pusillum)
Trillium catesbeaiTrillium cuneatum
f. cuneatum
f. luteum
Trillium discolor
Trillium erectum
var. erectum
var. album
Trillium flexipes
f. flexipes
f. billingtonii
f. walpolei
Trillium grandiflorum
f. grandiflorum
f. polymerum
f. rosum
Trillium luteum
Trillium pusillum
var. pusillum
var. monticulum
var. ozarkanum
var. 4
var. 5
var. virginianum
Trillium recurvatum
f. recurvatum
f. foliosum
f. luteum
f. petaloideum
f. shayi
Trillium rugelii
Trillium simile
Trillium sulcatum
f. sulcatum
f. albolutescens
Trillium undulatum
f. undulatum
f. enotatum
Trillium vaseyi
Trillium parviflorum
Trillium petiolatum
Trillium sessile
f. sessile
f. viridiflorum
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