Trillium decipiens |
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Chattahoochee River wakerobin, deceiving trillium |
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Rhizomes | horizontal, brownish, thick, praemorse, not brittle. |
Scapes | 1–3, green or bronze-green, round in cross section, 1.7–4.4 dm, stout, glabrous. |
Bracts | held horizontally, not drooping, tips at anthesis held well above ground, sessile; blade usually very strongly marked with at least 3 shades of dark green, bronze green, and purplish green, often with light central strip, mottling becoming obscure with age, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, widest at ca. 1/3 of length from basal attachment, tapered very gradually to tip, 8–17+ × 4.9–8.5 cm, rounded basally, margins of distal 1/3 straight, apex acute. |
Flower | faintly ill-scented; sepals divergent-ascending, streaked with green to maroon, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 36–68 × 12–21 mm, margins entire, flat or slightly raised adaxially, apex acute; petals long-lasting, erect, ± connivent, ± partially concealing stamens and ovary, maroon-purple, brownish purple to brown, greenish streaked to green, rarely yellow, becoming brown, or occasionally bright copper-bronze with age, not spirally twisted, veins not engraved, obovate to oblanceolate, large in proportion to leaf size compared to many species, 5–9 × 1–2 cm, 2+ times longer than wide, widest at or just above middle, thick-textured, margins entire, flat, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded; stamens erect or incurving, 12–24 mm; filaments yellow, 2–3 mm; anthers erect, straight, rarely arcuate, yellow, 10–15 mm, dehiscence latrorse; connectives straight, projecting 1–2 mm beyond anther sacs; ovary dark red, brown, or gray, ellipsoid, strongly 6-angled, 6–13 mm; stigmas basally erect, tips recoiled upon ovary, distinct, green, white, or purple, linear, short, 3–12 mm, slightly thickened basally, not fleshy. |
Fruits | baccate, dark green to purple, odor not reported, ellipsoid, strongly grooved and ridged, pulpy or mealy. |
2n | = 10. |
Trillium decipiens |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–mid spring (late Jan–early Apr). |
Habitat | Rich woods and bluffs in mixed deciduous forests of oak, red maple, beech, elm, and others, also thinner upland oak woods, in depressions and in ravines, low sandy-alluvial slopes to local rivers |
Elevation | 50–100 m (200–300 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 108. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Trillium > subg. Phyllantherum |
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Name authority | J. D. Freeman: Brittonia 27: 17, fig. 3. (1975) |
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