Trillium viridescens

Trillium viridescens

Vulnerable  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Melanthiaceae
Genus: Trillium
Species: T. viridescens
Binomial name
Trillium viridescens
Nutt., 1835

Trillium viridescens, the tapertip wakerobin[2] or Ozark trillium, is a spring-flowering perennial plant found in parts of Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma,[3] Kansas, Texas and Louisiana.[4] It usually grows in rich deciduous forests and mountain ranges[5] where the soil is clayey and calcareous. The flower usually has bi-colored petals — purplish[6] near the base and green above — which stand upright at the junction of the three leaves. The species is 2 feet (0.61 m) high.[5]

References

  1. "Trillium viridescens". NatureServe Explorer. NatureServe. Retrieved May 2, 2008.
  2. "Trillium viridescens". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  3. Thomas E. Hemmerly (2002). Ozark Wildflowers. University of Georgia Press. p. 114. ISBN 0-8203-2336-5. LCCN 2001047648.
  4. "Trillium viridescens". Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) occurrence data and maps. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  5. 1 2 Carl G. Hunter (2000). Wildflowers of Arkansas. Ozark Society Foundation. p. 44.
  6. Nathaniel Lord Britton; Addison Brown (1913). An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 1 (2nd ed.). Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 524.
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