Biology:Trillium simile
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Jeweled wakerobin | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Liliales |
| Family: | Melanthiaceae |
| Genus: | Trillium |
| Species: | T. simile
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| Binomial name | |
| Trillium simile Gleason
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| U.S. distribution of Trillium simile | |
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Homotypic synonyms
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Trillium simile, the jeweled wakerobin,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is endemic to the southeastern United States. It is also known as sweet white wake-robin, sweet white trillium and confusing trillium.
Description
Trillium simile is a spring-flowering perennial plant.
Taxonomy
Trillium simile was described by Henry A. Gleason in 1906.[3]
Distribution and habitat
Trillium simile is endemic to the southeastern United States. It occurs in the southern Appalachian Mountains in the U.S. states of Tennessee, Georgia, North, and South Carolina.[4] It prefers moist humus-rich soils at the edges of Rhododendron thickets in mature forests. It is found at elevations of 500–700 meters (1,600–2,300 feet).[5]
Bibliography
- Gleason, Henry Allan (July 1906). "The pedunculate species of Trillium". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 33 (7): 387–396. doi:10.2307/2478819. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13174156#page/431/mode/1up. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
References
- ↑ "Trillium simile Gleason" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/258390-2.
- ↑ "Trillium simile". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=TRSI3. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
- ↑ Gleason (1906), p. 391.
- ↑ "Trillium simile", State-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA) (Biota of North America Program (BONAP)), 2014, http://bonap.net/MapGallery/State/Trillium%20simile.png, retrieved 16 December 2024
- ↑ Case Jr., Frederick W. (2002), "Trillium simile", in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA), 26, New York and Oxford, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242102012, retrieved 16 December 2024
<ref> tag with name "NatureServe" defined in <references> is not used in prior text.External links
- Citizen science observations for Trillium simile at iNaturalist
- Pistrang, Mark. "Sweet white trillium (Trillium simile)". United States Forest Service. https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/trillium_simile.shtml.
Wikidata ☰ Q3024443 entry
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