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 8b
Plant Height: 8 - 24 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: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Groundcover
Will Naturalize
Propagation: Seeds: 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
  • American Wood Lily
  • Giant wakerobin
  • Wake robin
  • Trinity Flower
  • Wood Lily

Photo Gallery
Location: Vancouver Island, B.C.
Date: April 2014
Trillium Chloropetalum rubra
Location: Victoria, BC
Date: 2019-04-02
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England UK 
Date: 2019-03-25
Trillium chloropetalum
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England UK 
Date: 4000-01-17
Trillium chloropetalum
Location: My own garden
Date: 2016-06-24

Photo credit: Ramin Nakisa
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2020-05-01
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2019-05-04
Location: Giant wake robin (Trillium chloropetalum) on Purisima Creek Redwoods Whittemore Gulch Trail
Date: 2010-04-10
Photo courtesy of: Miguel Vieira
Location: Giant trillium on Windy Hill Open Space Preserve Hamms Gulch Trail
Date: 2010-02-21
Photo courtesy of: Miguel Vieira

photo credit: Francine Riez

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