Common Name: FALSE-HELLEBORE FAMILY Habit: Perennial herb, from rhizome or bulb, or rhizomes ending in weakly developed bulbs, scapose or not. Leaf: alternate, whorled, or mostly basal and spirally arranged, deciduous after 1 year or not. Inflorescence: raceme, panicle, or flowers 1. Flower: perianth parts 6, in 2 petal-like whorls or of sepals and petals, free or fused below, +- spreading; stamens 6, from perianth, anthers attached at base or near middle; ovary superior or partly inferior, chambers 3, styles 3, persistent. Fruit: capsule, loculicidal or septicidal. Genera In Family: 10 genera, 130 species: northern hemisphere. Note: W North America Zigadenus moved to Toxicoscordion. eFlora Treatment Author: Dale W. McNeal, except as noted Scientific Editor: Dale W. McNeal, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: WAKEROBIN, TRILLIUM Habit: Rhizome short, thick, spreading to erect. Stem: erect, >=1 per rhizome. Leaf: 3, in 1 whorl subtending flower, sessile or subsessile, +- ovate. Inflorescence: flowers 1 per stem, erect to nodding, stalked or sessile. Flower: bisexual; sepals 3, free, persistent, +- green; petals 3, free, withering, white, +- pink, +- yellow, or purple; stamens 6; ovary chambers 3, styles 3. Fruit: capsule, +- berry-like. Seed: many, ovoid. Etymology: (Latin: 3, from leaves) Note:Trillium rivale moved to Pseudotrillium. eFlora Treatment Author: Dale W. McNeal & Bryan D. Ness Reference: Farmer 2006 Aliso 22:579--592; Freeman 1975 Brittonia 27:1--62
Trillium chloropetalum (Torr.) Howell
NATIVE Stem: 2--7 dm. Leaf: sessile, 7--21 cm, 7--18 cm wide, rounded to obtuse at tip, generally weakly +- brown-green-spotted. Flower: erect, sessile; odor generally sweet rose-like or +- spicy; sepals 3.5--6.5 cm, lanceolate; petals erect or leaning inward and +- concealing stamens, 6.5--10 cm, linear-oblanceolate to obovate, yellow to pink to dark purple, occasionally white; stamens 15--30 mm, tissue between anther sacs purple; ovary purple. Fruit: ovoid, obscurely 6-angled, red-purple, pulpy. Chromosomes: n=5. Ecology: Edges of redwood forest, chaparral, generally moist slopes, canyon banks in alluvial soils; Elevation: 100--2000 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR, NCoRI, CCo, SnFrB. Flowering Time: Apr--May Note: Highly variable; a population may contain many color variants. Synonyms: Trillium chloropetalum var. giganteum (Hook. & Arn.) Munz Jepson eFlora Author: Dale W. McNeal & Bryan D. Ness Reference: Farmer 2006 Aliso 22:579--592; Freeman 1975 Brittonia 27:1--62 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Trillium angustipetalum Next taxon: Trillium ovatum
Botanical illustration including Trillium chloropetalum
Citation for this treatment: Dale W. McNeal & Bryan D. Ness 2012, Trillium chloropetalum, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=47218, accessed on January 25, 2025.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2025, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on January 25, 2025.
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