Trillium ovatum Pursh

Pacific trillium (en)

Species

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Characteristics

Rhizomes semierect to horizontal, short, stout, praemorse. Scapes 1–2, round, 2–5 dm, ± slender, glabrous. Bracts sessile, subsessile, or short-petiolate; blade medium green, sometimes blotched and mottled, main veins prominent, ovate-rhombic, 7–12 × 5–20 cm, continuing to expand during anthesis, base rounded, apex acuminate. Flower erect or nodding, odorless; sepals spreading to horizontal, green, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 15–50 × 6–20 mm, margins entire, apex acute; petals erect-ascending, usually wide-spreading from base, exposing entire pistil, white or with pink or blush markings, lacking V-shaped markings, fading to rosy pink, purple, or dark red, veins not deeply engraved, ± linear to widely obovate, 1.5–7 ×1–4 cm, widest at or above middle, thin-textured, margins flat to undulate, apex acuminate; stamens prominent, slightly recurved-spreading to straight, 10–18 mm; filaments white, shorter than anthers, slender; anthers yellow, 4–16 mm, slender, dehiscence latrorse-introrse; ovary green or white, ovoid, 6-angled, 5–12 mm, attachment ± 3/4 ovary width; stigmas recurved, barely connate basally, greenish white or white, linear, not lobed adaxially, 6–10 mm, uniformly thin; pedicel erect to leaning, 2–6 cm. Fruits baccate, green or white, ± odorless, broadly ovoid, obscurely winged, 1.2–2.8 × 0.7–1.9 cm, pulpy-moist. 2n = 10.
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A small plant. It grows 15 cm high and spreads 15-20 cm wide. The leaflets are narrow and 5 cm long. They can be blue-green. The flowers are white. The petals are 25 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.18 - 0.2
Mature height (meter) 0.4
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. In Canada it grows in moist forests and moist open places. It suits hardiness zones 6-9.
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Rich woodlands. Damp woods or boggy areas in partial shade, from low valleys to elevations of 2,000 metres.
Light 1-8
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-9

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Love Medicine (bulb), Dermatological Aid (bulb), Eye Medicine (root), Dermatological Aid (unspecified), Eye Medicine (unspecified), Poison (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.
Mode cuttings divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 545
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Trillium ovatum leaf picture by E.R. Burk (cc-by-sa)
Trillium ovatum leaf picture by Kate Elliot (cc-by-sa)
Trillium ovatum leaf picture by Stacey Duncan (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Trillium ovatum flower picture by Mauro (cc-by-sa)
Trillium ovatum flower picture by Keziah Rhoads (cc-by-sa)
Trillium ovatum flower picture by Alexis Manyrath (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Trillium ovatum world distribution map, present in Colombia and United States of America

Conservation status

Trillium ovatum threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:317429-2
WFO ID wfo-0000750666
COL ID 58TYW
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Trillium obovatum Trillium ovatum subsp. ovatum Trillium ovatum

Lower taxons

Trillium ovatum var. oettingeri Trillium ovatum var. ovatum