Taxon | Trillium chloropetalum |
group | Monocots |
Family | Melanthiaceae |
Family common name(s) | false hellebore; bunchflower |
Genus common name(s) | trillium; wake-robin; wake robin; wakerobin; moose-flower; benjamins; Benjamins; mooseflower; moose-flowers; moose flowers; toadshade; toad-shade; toad shade; herb true love of Canada; herb true-love of Canada; true love of Canada; American herb Paris; birthroot; birth root; much-hunger; much hunger |
Species common name(s) | giant wake-robin; giant wake robin; giant wakerobin; western purple-eyed toadshade; western purple eyed toadshade; western purple toadshade; marsh trillium |
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Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | fragrant purple toadshade [var. giganteum]; black trillium [var. giganteum] |
Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | giant trillium, common trillium, red trillium, sessile trillium, sessile-flowered trillium, sessile-flowered wakerobin, sessile-flow'rd wakerobin are applied to multiple Trillium taxa; bath flower, bumblebee root are applied to taxa in multiple families |
Common name(s), rejected | not recommended: Indian shamrock |
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Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Liliaceae s.l.; var. chloropetalum; var. giganteum (Hook. & Arn.) Munz |