Trillium simile

Jeweled wakerobin
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Liliales
Family:	Melanthiaceae
Genus:	Trillium
Species:	T. simile
Binomial name
	Trillium simile; Gleason
	U.S. distribution of Trillium simile
Synonyms
	Homotypic synonyms Trillium erectum f. simile (Gleason) H.E.Ahles ; Trillium vaseyi var. simile (Gleason) Barksd. ; ;

Trillium simile, the jeweled wakerobin,^[3] 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.

Trillium simile was described by Henry A. Gleason in 1906.^[4]

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.^[5] It prefers moist humus-rich soils at the edges of Rhododendron thickets in mature forests. It is found at elevations of 500–700 meters (1,640–2,300 feet).^[6]

Gleason, Henry Allan (July 1906). "The pedunculate species of Trillium". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 33 (7): 387–396. doi:10.2307/2478819. hdl:2027/hvd.32044106472392. JSTOR 2478819. Retrieved 8 December 2021.

^ NatureServe (6 December 2024). "Trillium simile". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
^ "Trillium simile Gleason". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
^ NRCS. "Trillium simile". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). 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. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
^ Case Jr., Frederick W. (2002). "Trillium simile". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 26. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 December 2024 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.