Species: Subgenus: Trillium (Pedicellate)
Family: Trilliaceae
Genus: Trillium
Subgenus: Trillium (Pedicellate)
Common Name: Wake Robin

Pedicellate Trillium mostly have leaves uniformily green, flowers on pedicellate, and petals spreading. Flowers can be erect or drooping or nodding. Several different approaches to subgroup pedicellates have one common group, the Erectum Group.

As you will notice below I am Thankful to a number of trillium lovers which has contributed pictures for all to see. We are still in need for pictures of other species, varieties, forms, and exotic trillium cultivars. You are invited to provide trillium species or cultivar images so we might eventually display all species, varieties and forms and exotic cultivars. I am especially thankful to Carl Denton for his images and cultivar descriptions. In time I hope to complete the description with each picture. Feel free to input.

Please email any trillium submittals to ... <harold@trilliumresearch.org>. You may submit, if you wish, pictures or other large files on a CD-ROM to: Holmes Trillium Research, 17 Heather Street, Lacey's Spring, Alabama 35754.



Scientific Name: CATESBEAI, (pink form)
Common Name(s): Catesby's T., Rosey Wr, Rosey T., Bashful WR, Nodding Rose WR.
Varieties, Forms): White and pink forms
Location: C/N Al, C/N Ga, SE Tn,C/N SC, C/W NC.
Description: Unique but quite variable features, petal are white to pink and mixed and may fade to pink after anthesis, petals highly recurved and can be very narrow or wide, with smooth or ruffulled edges. Flowers normally hidding below leaves(as in bashful- thus the name Bashful Wake-Robin.)

Photograph: Harold Holmes

Scientific Name: CATESBEAI, (White form)
Common Name(s): Catesby's T., Rosey Wr, Rosey T., Bashful WR, Nodding Rose WR.
Varieties, Forms): White and pink forms
Location: C/N Al, C/N Ga, SE Tn,C/N SC, C/W NC.
Description: Unique but quite variable features, petal are white to pink and mixed and may fade to pink after anthesis, petals highly recurved and can be very narrow or wide, with smooth or ruffulled edges. Flowers normally hidding below leaves(as in bashful- thus the name Bashful Wake-Robin.)

Photograph: Harold Holmes

Scientific Name: CERNUUM, var. cernuum
Common Name(s): Northern Nodding Wake Robin
Varieties, Forms): var. cernuum, f. tangerae, var. macranthum
Location: Great Lakes East to New England and north into Canada, South to Va.
Description: The Northern Nodding Wake-Robin, T. cernuum named for its nodding feature. It is somewhat similar to its larger Southern Nodding Wake-Robin, T. rugelii.

Photograph: Carl Denton

Scientific Name: ERECTUM, var. erectum
Common Name(s): WR T., Red T., Stinking Benjamin T., Stinking Willie, Wet Dog
Varieties, Forms): var. erectum, var. album
Location:
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Photograph: Harold Holmes

Scientific Name: ERECTUM, var. album
Common Name(s): WR T., Red T., Stinking Benjamin T., Stinking Willie, Wet Dog
Varieties, Forms): var. album, var. erectum
Location: E Tn, W NC, north to Canada and New England
Description:

Photograph: Harold Holmes

Scientific Name: ERECTUM, 'double face'
Common Name(s): WR T., Red T., Stinking Benjamin T., Stinking Willie, Wet Dog
Varieties, Forms): var. album, var. erectum, 'double face'
Location: ...
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Photograph: Carl Denton

Scientific Name: FLEXIPES, f.flexipes
Common Name(s): Bent T., Bent WR, Drooping T., White T.
Varieties, Forms): f.flexipes, f. billingtonii, f. walpolei
Location: ...
Description: .

Photograph: Harold Holmes


Scientific Name: GRANDIFLORUM, f. grandiflorum
Common Name(s): WR T., White T., Great White T., White WR, Death Flower, Showy Wake-Robin.
Varieties, Forms): f. grandiflorum, f. polymerum, f. roseum, f. flora plenum, f. grandiflorum (small form)
Location: ...
Description:

Photograph: Harold Holmes

Scientific Name: GRANDIFLORUM, f. grandiflorum (small form)
Common Name(s): WR T., White T., Great White T., White WR, Death Flower, Showy Wake-Robin.
Varieties, Forms): f. grandiflorum, f. polymerum, f. roseum, f. flora plenum, f. grandiflorum (small form).
Location: ...
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Photograph: Carl Denton

Scientific Name: GRANDIFLORUM, "SNOWBUNTING"
Common Name(s): WR T., White T., Great White T., White WR, Death Flower, Smith's double, Showy Wake-Robin.
Varieties, Forms): f. grandiflorum, f. polymerum, f. roseum, f. flora plenum, f. grandiflorum (small form).
Location: ...
Description: "snowbunting"is a sterile double mutation that came from "Flora Plenum" which was found on the Smith farm in N.Y. and is called "Smith's double". In 1966 it received an Award of Merit at Chelsea Show grown by Major & Mrs Knox Finlay of Keillour in Perthshire,Scotland.

Photograph: Harold Holmes

Scientific Name: GRANDIFLORUM "Flora Plenum"
Common Name(s): WR T., White T., Great White T., White WR, Death Flower, Smith's double, Showy Wake-Robin.
Varieties, Forms): f. grandiflorum, f. polymerum, f. roseum, f. flora plenum, f. grandiflorum (small form)
Location: ...
Description: T. g. "Flora Plenum"is a sterile double mutation that was found on the Smith farm in N.Y. and is called "Smith's double". T. g. flore plenum 'Bressingham' Nine rhizomes of this clone was brought over from Montreal Bot.Gns.by Allan Bloom in 1958 and used for propagation. Presumably the same clone as discovered at Erin,NY in May 1924. T.grandiflorum flore plenum is stated to be found in two distinct forms;"camelia flowered" with recurved petals, and "gardenia flowered" with incurved petals.

Photograph: Carl Denton

Scientific Name: GRANDIFLORUM, "Jenny Rhodes"
Common Name(s): WR T., White T., Great White T., White WR, Death Flower, Showy Wake-Robin.
Varieties, Forms): f. grandiflorum, f. polymerum, f. roseum, f. flora plenum, f. grandiflorum (small form)
Location: ...
Description: T. g. "Jenny Rhodes" white 6 petalled flower with central ruff of small petals. Occasionally will set a few seeds. Found by Mr Frank Rhodes when they stopped for a picnic on the East side of the Blue Ridge Parkway in 1971 and brought to U.K. Named after his daughter born that year.There may be several sixpetalled forms of T.grandiflorum of which "Jenny Rhodes" is the only named clone.

Photograph: Carl Denton

Scientific Name: GRANDIFLORUM, f. roseum
Common Name(s): WR T., White T., Great White T., White WR, Death Flower, Smith's double, Showy Wake-Robin.
Varieties, Forms): f. grandiflorum, f. polymerum, f. roseum, f. flora plenum, f. grandiflorum (small form)
Location: ...
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Photograph: Carl Denton

Scientific Name: NIVALE
Common Name(s): Snow T.
Varieties, Forms): None Known
Location: ...
Description: ..

Photograph: Carl Denton


Scientific Name: OVATUM, var. ovatum
Common Name(s): Western White Trillium, Western Showy Wake-Robin.
Varieties, Forms): var. ovatum, var. oettingerii, f. hibbersonii, f. maculosum, "Barbara Walsh" (white and pink).
Location: Western USA
Description: ..

Photograph: Carl Denton

Scientific Name: OVATUM, "Barbara Walsh" (white)
Common Name(s): Western White Trillium, Western Showy Wake-Robin.
Varieties, Forms): var. ovatum, var. oettingerii, f. hibbersonii, f. maculosum, "Barbara Walsh" (white and pink).
Location: Western USA
Description: ..

Photograph: Carl Denton

Scientific Name: OVATUM, "Barbara Walsh" (pink)
Common Name(s): Western White Trillium, Western Showy Wake-Robin.
Varieties, Forms): var. ovatum, var. oettingerii, f. hibbersonii, f. maculosum, "Barbara Walsh" (white and pink).
Location: Western USA
Description: ..

Photograph: Carl Denton

Scientific Name: OVATUM, f. maculosum
Common Name(s): Western White Trillium, Western Showy Wake-Robin.
Varieties, Forms): var. ovatum, var. oettingerii, f. hibbersonii, f. maculosum, "Barbara Walsh" (white and pink).
Location: Western USA
Description: ..

Photograph: Carl Denton


Scientific Name: PERSISTENS
Common Name(s): Persistent T.
Varieties, Forms): None Known
Location: SE USA
Description:

Photograph: Carl Denton


Scientific Name: PUSILLUM
Common Name(s): Least T., Dwarf T.
Varieties, Forms): var. alabamicum, var. georgianum, var. monticulum, var. ozarkanum, var. texanum, var. virginanum, var. pusillum
Location: ..
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Photograph: Harold Holmes


Scientific Name: RIVALE (Reclassified Psudotrillium)
Common Name(s): Brook T., Siskiyou WR.
Varieties, Forms): None Known
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Photograph: Susan Farmer


Scientific Name: RUGELLI
Common Name(s): Southern Nodding WR.
Varieties, Forms): None Known
Location: ..
Description: ..

Photograph: Harold Holmes


Scientific Name: SIMILE
Common Name(s): Sweet White T., Confusing T.
Varieties, Forms): None Known
Location: ..
Description: ..

Photograph: Harold Holmes


Scientific Name: SULCATUM, f. sulcatum
Common Name(s): Southern Red T., Barkesdale T.
Varieties, Forms): f. sulcatum, f. albolutescens
Location: ..
Description:

Photograph: Harold Holmes


Scientific Name: UNDULATUM, f. undulatum
Common Name(s): Painted Lady, Painted T., Striped WR.
Varieties, Forms): f. undulatum, f. enotatum
Location: ..
Description:

Photograph: Harold Holmes


Scientific Name: VASEYI
Common Name(s): Sweet T., Sweet Beth, Vasey's WR.
Varieties, Forms): crimson and white forms
Location: ..
Description: ..

Photograph: Harold Holmes