Study Plan: Document antics and strange happenings with Trillium

• Leaf antics
• sepal antics
• flower antics
• Rhizome antics
• Extreme clumping
• Aborting
• Color antics

Study Findings: (In Process). Pictures document a number of Trillium antics.

Scientific Name: CATESBEAI
Common Name(s): Catesby's T., Rosey Wr, Rosey T., Bashful WR, Nodding Rose WR.
Location:
Description: ..White Trillium Catesbaei with 6 flower petals and all other parts normal.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: UNDERWOODII
Common Name(s): Elk Heart
Location:
Description: Trillium Underwoodii in trash dump in Flordia with 6 leaves and all other parts normal.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: UNDERWOODII
Common Name(s): Elk Heart
Location: SE USA
Description: Trillium Underwoodii with 4 leaves greatly mottled.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: STAMINEUM
Common Name(s): Twisted T., Flared Toadshade
Location: SE USA
Description: Trillium Stamineum in N. Alabama with 2 leaves.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: FLEXIPES
Common Name(s): Bent T., Bent WR, Drooping T., White T.
Location: ...
Description: Trillium Flexipes with deformed petals and other parts.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: DECIPIENS
Common Name(s): Deceiving Trillium
Location:
Description: Trillium Decepiens in South Alabama with deformed leaves.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: PUSILLUM
Common Name(s): Least T., Dwarf T.
Location: ..
Description: Trillium Pusillum, var. alabamicum,in north Alabama with 6 flower petals.

Photograph by Jerry Green(2005)

Scientific Name: Trillium Cuneatum (Hughes)
Common Name(s): Sweet Betsey, Large Toadshade, Whipporwill.
Location: Eastern USA
Description: Picture is 1 of 2 large natural cuneatum clumps that I have seen. Cuneatum does not usually produce off sets in North Alabama. Other pictures natural T. flexipes offsets in North Alabama where they usually produce very few offsets(0-2 per 100 rhizomes).

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: Trillium Cuneatum (Madisom Clump),
Common Name(s): Fragrant White Toadshade
Location: SE USA
Description: The Madison clump with 38 offsets was rescued in 2004 from a clearcut woodland wedged between two large roots next to a tree stump. It took 30 minutes to cut the roots and rescue the clump. It is only 1 of 2 large T. cuneatum clumps I have seen in North Alabama (out of many thousands observed). This clump is being used in test to see if the offset production will continue in a less hardship environment. The picture to the left is an adjacent cuneatum cluster (seperate rhizomes) rescued and used as a control in my test.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: FLEXIPES
Common Name(s): Bent T., Bent WR, Drooping T., White T.
Location: ...
Description: Trillium Flexipes in North Alabama with deformed petals and other parts.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: STAMINEUM
Common Name(s): Twisted T., Flared Toadshade
Location:
Description: Trillium Stamineum, f. luteum in a garden in south Tennessee.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: STAMINEUM
Common Name(s): Twisted T., Flared Toadshade
Location:
Description: Trillium Stamineum, f. stamineum with yellow pollen in North Alabama.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: STAMINEUM
Common Name(s): Twisted T., Flared Toadshade
Location: SE USA
Description: Trillium Stamineum, f. stamineum with strange flower petals and other parts in North Alabama.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: STAMINEUM
Common Name(s): Twisted T., Flared Toadshade
Location: SE USA
Description: Trillium Stamineum, f. stamineum with strange flower petals and other parts in North Alabama.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: RUGELLI
Common Name(s): Southern Nodding WR.
Location: ..North Alabama
Description: One clump of Trillium rugelli in North Alabama has varigated leaves.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Scientific Name: GRANDIFLORUM
Common Name(s): WR T., White T., Great White T., White WR, Death Flower
Location: ..North Alabama
Description: A 5 petal flower in the southern most known grandiflorum site.

Photograph by Harold Holmes(2005)

Underwoodii

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