Trillium maculatum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Liliales |
Family: | Melanthiaceae |
Genus: | Trillium |
Species: | T. maculatum
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Binomial name | |
Trillium maculatum | |
Synonyms [4] | |
Trillium maculatum
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Trillium maculatum, the spotted wakerobin or spotted trillium, [5] [6] is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is a member of the Trillium cuneatum complex, a closely related group of sessile-flowered trilliums. The species is endemic to the southeastern United States, ranging across Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and northern Florida.
Trillium maculatum is a perennial, herbaceous, flowering plant that persists by means of an underground rhizome. Like all trilliums, it has a whorl of three bracts (leaves) and a single trimerous flower with three sepals, three petals, two whorls of three stamens each, and three carpels (fused into a single ovary with three stigmas). [7] It has a sessile flower (no flower stalk), erect petals, and mottled leaves. [8] Its flower petals are deep red or reddish-purple but occasionally yellow. [6]
Trillium maculatum was first described by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1830. [3] The specific epithet maculatum means "spotted", [9] a reference to the conspicuously marked leaves of some forms of this species. [10] Although Rafinesque described a species with spotted stems, [11] later authors have not confirmed that character.[ citation needed]
Trillium maculatum is a member of the Trillium cuneatum complex, a group of eight taxa including Trillium luteum and Trillium cuneatum (in the strict sense). [12] All members of the complex are sessile-flowered trilliums ( Trillium subgen. Sessilia).
Trillium maculatum is endemic to the southeastern United States, ranging across South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and northern Florida. [4] [13]
Trillium maculatum flowers early February to early April. [14]
Trillium maculatum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Liliales |
Family: | Melanthiaceae |
Genus: | Trillium |
Species: | T. maculatum
|
Binomial name | |
Trillium maculatum | |
Synonyms [4] | |
Trillium maculatum
|
Trillium maculatum, the spotted wakerobin or spotted trillium, [5] [6] is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is a member of the Trillium cuneatum complex, a closely related group of sessile-flowered trilliums. The species is endemic to the southeastern United States, ranging across Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and northern Florida.
Trillium maculatum is a perennial, herbaceous, flowering plant that persists by means of an underground rhizome. Like all trilliums, it has a whorl of three bracts (leaves) and a single trimerous flower with three sepals, three petals, two whorls of three stamens each, and three carpels (fused into a single ovary with three stigmas). [7] It has a sessile flower (no flower stalk), erect petals, and mottled leaves. [8] Its flower petals are deep red or reddish-purple but occasionally yellow. [6]
Trillium maculatum was first described by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1830. [3] The specific epithet maculatum means "spotted", [9] a reference to the conspicuously marked leaves of some forms of this species. [10] Although Rafinesque described a species with spotted stems, [11] later authors have not confirmed that character.[ citation needed]
Trillium maculatum is a member of the Trillium cuneatum complex, a group of eight taxa including Trillium luteum and Trillium cuneatum (in the strict sense). [12] All members of the complex are sessile-flowered trilliums ( Trillium subgen. Sessilia).
Trillium maculatum is endemic to the southeastern United States, ranging across South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and northern Florida. [4] [13]
Trillium maculatum flowers early February to early April. [14]