Vascular Plant Herbarium

Vascular Plant Database Genus Results

Category: Monocots
Family Name: Melanthiaceae

Trillium - [maps | photos]

• Trillium catesbaei Ell.
  Common Name: Catesby's wakerobin

• Trillium cuneatum Raf.
  Common Name: little sweet Betsy
  Synonyms:
  

         • Trillium hugeri Small

• Trillium decumbens Harbison (TN Endangered)
  Common Name: decumbent trillium

• Trillium erectum L.
  NWI TN: Facultative Upland
  Common Name: red trillium
  Synonyms:
  

         • Trillium erectum L. var. album Pursh

         • Trillium erectum L. var. flavum Torr.

• Trillium flexipes Raf.
  NWI TN: Facultative -
  Common Name: bent trillium

• Trillium grandiflorum (Michx.) Salisb.
  Common Name: largeflowered trillium

• Trillium lancifolium Raf. (TN Endangered)
  NWI TN: Obligate Upland
  Common Name: lanceleaf wakerobin

• Trillium luteum (Muhl.) Harbison
  Common Name: yellow trillium
  Synonyms:
  

         • Trillium cuneatum Raf. var. luteum (Muhl.) Ahles

• Trillium pusillum Michaux. (TN Endangered)
  NWI TN: Facultative Wetland
  Common Name: dwarf wakerobin
  Synonyms:
  

         • Trillium pusillum Michx. var. ozarkanum (Palmer & Steyerm.) Steyerm.

• Trillium recurvatum Beck
  NWI TN: Facultative Upland
  Common Name: bloody butcher

• Trillium rugelii Rendle (TN Endangered)
  Common Name: southern nodding trillium

• Trillium sessile L.
  Common Name: sessile trillium

• Trillium simile Gleason
  Common Name: sweet white trillium

• Trillium stamineum Harbison
  Common Name: Blue Ridge wakerobin

• Trillium sulcatum T.S. Patrick
  Common Name: southern red trillium
  Synonyms:
  

         • Trillium erectum L. var. sulcatum Barksdale

• Trillium tennesseense E.E. Schill. & Floden (TN Special Concern)
  Common Name: Tennessee trillium

• Trillium undulatum Willd.
  NWI TN: Facultative Upland
  Common Name: painted trillium

• Trillium vaseyi Harbison
  Common Name: Vasey's trillium
  Synonyms:
  

         • Trillium erectum L. var. vaseyi (Harbison) Ahles

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*Non-native taxon known to be naturalized in Tennessee

All names & statuses follow the Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee (2015).
Click here for a description of rare, threatened, or endangered (RTE) status & National Wetland Indicator (NWI) status.

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