Flora of East-Central Indiana

Large-Flowered Trillium
Scientific Name Trillium grandiflorum  (Michx.) Salisb.
Family Name Liliaceae (Lily Family)

 

Characteristics
Habitat: rich, moist woods, usually in basic or neutral soil
Plant Height: 20-45 cm, rhizomous, single flowering stalks
Flower Color: white
Flower: complete; perfect; 5-10 cm wide; 3 lanceloate, ascending sepals; 3 recurved petals; 6 stamens with yellow anthers; ovary with 3 locules, 6-angled; peduncle either erect or slightly declined, but with flower held above the leaves
Inflorescence: solitary, terminal flower
Fruit: many-seeded berry
Leaves: simple; entire; ovate or subrotund, diamond shaped; nearly stalkless
Bloom Time: April-May
Origins: native
Other: petals turn pink with age; rhizomes were gathered and chewed by Native Americans for a variety of purposes
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