Trillium pusillum
Dwarf Trillium, Least Trillium
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Morphology

Scapes7-20 cm, terete.
Leavessessile or not.
Blades2.5-8(-10) cm long x 1-3 cm wide, not mottled.
Flowersessile or pedicellate.
Sepals15-30 mm long x 5-10 mm wide.
Petals15-30 mm long x 5-15 mm wide, white, turning pink with age, margins undulate.
Anthers3-8(-10) mm long, with introrse dehiscence.
Ovary2.5-8 mm long.
Stigmas3-12 mm long, white to greenish.

Anthesis

Flowering from March to May.


Distribution

United States: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.


Reference(s)

Based on F.W. Case, Jr. Trillium in Flora of North America, volume 26. 2002. Oxford University Press.

A full treatment is available for Trillium at www.eFloras.org


Fact Sheet Developed By

Pedro Oñativia Lake © 2007



Trillium pusillum
© Thomas G. Barnes
University of Tennessee Herbarium
Austin Peay State University
Trillium pusillum
© Thomas G. Barnes
University of Tennessee Herbarium
Austin Peay State University
Trillium pusillum
Photo by G.A. Cooper
Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution
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