Native and naturalized plants
Native and naturalized plants of the Carolinas and Georgia, eastern Tennessee and northern Florida

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Weakley's Flora ( 4/7/08 ): Trilliaceae
Trillium persistens

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PLANTS National Database: Liliaceae
Trillium persistens

Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968): Liliaceae
041-03-X
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Common Name:
Persistent Trillium, Edna's Trillium

Forb
Perennial

Native to South Carolina & Georgia
Rare (US Endangered, GA Endangered, SC Rare)
Documented growing wild in GA SC

Look for it in acidic forests with hemlocks and heaths, per Weakley's Flora



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Leaves:
Simple
Whorled

Flower:
Spring
White/Pink
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
3 sepals
3 petals

Fruit:
Spring/Summer
Berry

To learn more about this plant, look it up in a good book!
A Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p157
 Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p017
 Wildflowers of the Eastern US p170




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Patrick D. McMillan      pdmtper_1


March-April?

Endemic to a short stretch of the Tallulah-Tugaloo river system, per Weakley's Flora.

Acknowledgments to Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review

 

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Patrick D. McMillan      pdmtper_11


March-April?

Found in acidic forests with hemlock and heaths; rare, per Weakley's Flora.

Acknowledgments to Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review

 

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Patrick D. McMillan      pdmtper_4


March-April?

Acknowledgments to Patrick McMillan, Clemson University's Herbarium director, for taxonomic review

 

"... it must be borne in mind that dots [on distribution maps]... indicate where the different specimens have been collected, therefore where botanists have been. Absence of a dot... does not necessarily mean the species in question does not grow in that state." — A.S. Hitchcock, Manual of the Grasses of the United States