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NC Native Plant Sociey:
Trilliums

NC Native Trillium Plants

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Plants listed alphabetically by scientific name.
Thumbnail Scientific Name Common Name State Rank (*) State Status
(*)
Fed. Status
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Bloom
Time
Bloom Area
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image Trillidium undulatum [= Trillium undulatum] Painted Trillium, Striped Wake-robin No U.S. Status Listed April - May Mountains
image Trillium catesbyi [=Trillium catesbaei] Catesby's Trillium, Bashful Wakerobin, Bashful Trillium, No U.S. Status Listed Mar - June Mountains, Piedmont
image Trillium cuneatum Purple Toadshade, Sweet Betsy, Little Sweet Trillium, Little Sweet Betsy, Bloody Butcher No U.S. Status Listed March - April Piedmont, Mountains
image Trillium discolor Pale Yellow Trillium, Mottled Trillium, Pale Trillium, Small Yellow Toadshade. No U.S. Status Listed March - April - May Mountains
image Trillium erectum Wake Robin, Red Trillium, Purple Trillium, Stinking Benjamin, Stinking Willie, Birthwort No U.S. Status Listed Apr - Jun Mountains
image Trillium flexipes Bent Trillium, Bent White Trillium, Declined Trillium No U.S. Status Listed Apr Mountains
image Trillium grandiflorum Large-flowered Trillium, White Trillium, Great White Trillium No U.S. Status Listed April - May Mountains, Piedmont
image Trillium luteum Yellow Trillium, Yellow Toadshade, Wax Trillium, Lemon-scented Trillium No U.S. Status Listed Mar - June Mountains
image Trillium pusillum Carolina Least Trillium, Dwarf Wake-robin, Dwarf White Flowering Trillium No U.S. Status Listed March - April - May Statewide (Mountains, Piedmont, Coast)
image Trillium recurvatum Prairie Trillium, Prairie Wake-robin, Toadshade, Bloody Noses No U.S. Status Listed March - April - May Mountains, Piedmont
image Trillium rugelii [split from Trillium cernuum] Southern Nodding Trillium, Ill-scented Wakerobin, Ill-scented Trillium, No U.S. Status Listed April - May Mountains
image Trillium sessile Sessile Trillium, Toad Trillium, Sessile Toadshade No U.S. Status Listed March - April Mountains
image Trillium simile Sweet White Trillium, Jeweled Wake-robin, Confused Trillium No U.S. Status Listed March - April - May Mountains
image Trillium sulcatum Southern Red Trillium, Barksdale's Trilliam, Furrowed Wake-robin No U.S. Status Listed April - May Mountains
image 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 catesbeai
Trillium 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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