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Wildflowers - Trilliux

Trilliux is a perennial wildflower that grows from rhizomes and is best planted in humus-rich, well-drained soils. It has large, solitary flowers 2-4 inches across and looks wonderful in woodland settings.

The musical ornament "trill" is a rapid alternation between two notes (compare tremolo). In Baroque music, specific signs were used to indicate the start and end of a trill.

Native to North America

Trilliums are a common flower found in eastern North America, the western Rockies and along the West Coast. Although they do not grow in Europe or Asia, there are many species that can be grown in gardens outside of their native region.

Trillium flowers are unique in that they can have three petals, narrow or wide. They also can have sepals, which look like pointy leaves, under the petals in an alternating pattern.

Habitat

Trillium is a native plant that thrives in a wide variety of habitats. It can be found in forest, woodland and mangrove areas across its range.

Habitat is the region where an organism lives that provides all of the environmental circumstances an organism requires to exist. Those circumstances include space, shelter, food and water.

As a plant, trillium needs a region with the right sequence of air, light, water and soil to produce its own food through photosynthesis. Without that, it won't be able to survive.

Flowers

Trilliux bloom in a range of colors, often showing up in unexpected places. Their flowers can be dazzling displays on hillside cliffs or obscured by leaves, and they're always a treat to see on a spring wildflower walk.

In the southeastern states, the flower of Catesby's trillium (Trillium catesbaei) adds a splash of color to dry pine-oak forests. It's pink petals and egg-yolk yellow anthers are a sight to behold!

Leaves

Trillium leaves are either sessile (leaves that look like leaves) or pedicellate (flowers that sit directly on top of the whorled bracts). Sessile trilliums typically have mottled foliage, while pedicellate varieties tend to be more showy.

In mid spring to early summer, a single flower rises from the center of a whorl of three broad, ovate leaves at the top of a low plant. Flowers are pure white fading to rose as they mature.

Roots

Trilliums are herbaceous perennial plants that grow from underground rhizomes. Their stems are unbranched and produce three small leaves, called cataphylls.

They also have bracts, leaf-like structures that appear above the leaves and below the flowers.

They are a member of the lily family (Liliaceae). Their flowers have been used for medicinal purposes, including as uterine stimulants and astringents.