Stats

Lifespan: Perennial
Size: Small
Diet: Photosynthetic
Biome: Temperate forest
Range: North America
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Seeds
Defense: Toxins
Status: Common

About

Great White Trillium is a spring wildflower native to eastern North American forests, prized for its three large, pure-white tepals that slowly blush pink as the flower ages. It takes seven or more years to bloom from seed, making a single patch represent decades of undisturbed woodland.

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Liliales
Family: Melanthiaceae
Genus: Trillium
Species: Trillium grandiflorum