Flora
of East-Central Indiana
| Recurved Trillium |
| Scientific Name | Trillium recurvatum Beck. |
| Family Name | Liliaceae (Lily Family) |
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Characteristics |
| Habitat: | 30 cm tall or taller, erect, glabrous, greenish above, purplish near base |
| Plant Height: | 30+cm, erect; greenish above, purplish near base; simple, from short, horizontal rhizomes. |
| Flower Color: | red (maroon) |
| Flower: | complete; perfect; 3 recurved sepals; 3 petals, erect; 6 erect stamens, adnate at base of perianth; ovary superior, 3-sided but parted so appearing 6-angled with 3-locules; styles 3 |
| Inflorescence: | solitary, sessile, terminal flower |
| Fruit: | many-seeded berry |
| Leaves: | entire; simple; whorls of 3 at apex of stem; short, distinct petiole; elliptic to ovate; mottled above |
| Bloom Time: | April-May |
| Origins: | native |
| Other: | petals yellow with age |
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| general habit | drooping sepals | close up of flower | form |
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