Trillium catesbaei

Trillium catesbaei, also known as bashful trillium,[3] Catesby's trillium,[4] or bashful wakerobin,[5] is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is found in the southeastern United States[6] where its northern limit includes the Great Smoky Mountains and other parts of North Carolina and Tennessee. Its southernmost natural occurrence is in Escambia County, Alabama. Most of its populations are in the Piedmont from North Carolina to Alabama, under deciduous trees such as American beech, various oak and hickory species, and tulip poplar. Like most trilliums, it prefers moist, humus-rich soil in shade.

Trillium catesbaei

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Melanthiaceae
Genus: Trillium
Species:
T. catesbaei
Binomial name
Trillium catesbaei
Elliott, 1817
Synonyms[2]
  • Trillium nervosum Elliott
  • Trillium stylosum Nutt.
  • Delostylis cernuum Raf.
  • Delostylis stylosum (Nutt.) Raf.
  • Trillium balduinianum Raf.
  • Trillium declinatum Raf.
  • Trillium affine Rendle

Trillium catesbaei is a perennial herbaceous plant that spreads by means of underground rhizomes. Stems are up to 45 cm tall, with white, pink, or rose-colored flowers that sometimes turn darker pink as they get older. Sometimes the flowers are hidden behind green or yellow bracts (hence the "bashful" part of one of the common names).[3]

References
  1. "Trillium catesbaei". NatureServe Explorer. NatureServe. Retrieved 2007-07-04.
  2. "Trillium catesbaei". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  3. Case Jr., Frederick W. (2002). "Trillium catesbaei". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). 26. New York and Oxford – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  4. Pistrang, Mark. "Catesby's Trillium (Trillium catesbaei)". United States Forest Service. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  5. "Trillium catesbaei". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  6. "Trillium catesbaei". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2019.


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