General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Partial Shade to Full Shade
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 6 - 18 inches
Plant Spread: 6 - 12 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Spring ephemeral
Other: The above ground parts of Trilliums are scapes with three large, leaf-like bracts with the true leaves reduced to underground papery coverings around the rhizomes.
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Red
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Groundcover
Will Naturalize
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds: Seeds need alternating periods of warm and cold stratification to germinate
Sow in situ
Seeds are hydrophilic
Other info: Plants can be grown from seed, but it can take up to two years for fresh seed to germinate and another five to seven years for plants to bloom.
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Other: Trilliums are not bulbs and don't like drying out. They lose all living roots and will become limp and have little chance of surviving beyond the first season if bare rooted for any time.

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Common names
  • Red Trillium
  • Prairie Trillium
  • Bloody Butcher
  • Wake-Robin
  • Wood Lily
  • Brown Bess
  • American Wood Lily
  • Purple Wake Robin
  • Purple Trillium

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Location: Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor
Date: 2023-05-04
What these blooms lack in size they more than make up for in rich
Location: In the Missouri Botanical Garden in Saint Louis
Date: Spring, 2004
Red Trillium (Trillium recurvatum) 001
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2022-05-13
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2021-05-08
Maroon form
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2021-05-08
Yellow & Maroon forms.
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2016-04-18
Location: Lake Bluff, Il
Date: 2012-05-07 
Red Trillium
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2021-04-27
Leaves
Location: In the Missouri Botanical Garden in Saint Louis
Date: Spring, 2004
Red Trillium (Trillium recurvatum) 001
Uploaded by robertduval14
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2021-05-08
Yellow form
Location: Tennessee
Date: 2003-04-13
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/
Location: z5a, Smith College Botanical Garden
Date: 2012-04-20
Location: In the Missouri Botanical Garden in Saint Louis
Date: Spring, 2004
Red Trillium (Trillium recurvatum) 003
Uploaded by robertduval14
Uploaded by robertduval14
Location: IL
Date: 2016-05-08
Taken at local forest preserve.
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2021-04-27
Stem
Location: In the Missouri Botanical Garden in Saint Louis
Date: Spring, 2004
Red Trillium (Trillium recurvatum) 002
Uploaded by robertduval14
Location: Tennessee
Date: 2003-04-13
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/
Location: Highland Park, IL
Date: May 14, 2016
Found this growing up wild today...first Trillium I have ever see
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