General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Partial Shade to Full Shade
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 6 - 12 inches
Plant Spread: 6 - 12 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Spring ephemeral
Other: The above ground parts of Trilliums are scapes with three large, leaf-like bracts with the true leaves reduced to underground papery coverings around the rhizomes.
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Red
White
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Groundcover
Will Naturalize
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Seeds are hydrophilic
Other info: Plants can be grown from seed, but it can take up to two years for fresh seed to germinate and another five to seven years for plants to bloom.
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Other: Trilliums are not bulbs and don’t like drying out. They lose all living roots and will become limp and have little chance of surviving beyond the first season if bare rooted for any time.

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Common names
  • Catesby's Trillium
  • Bashful wakerobin
  • American Wood Lily

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Location: Undisturbed woodland, Gainesville, GA
Date: 2023-04-28
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England UK 
Date: 4000-01-17
Trillium catesbaei
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England UK 
Date: 4000-01-17
Trillium catesbaei
Location: Kentucky
Date: 2007-01-10
Trillium catesbei pink form
Uploaded by robertduval14

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
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Comments:
  • Posted by Marilyn (Kentucky - Zone 6a) on May 25, 2013 4:55 AM concerning plant:
    "Trillium catesbaei, also known as bashful wakerobin or rosy wake-robin, is a spring flowering perennial plant found in the southeastern United States. Like most trilliums, it prefers moist, humus-rich soil in shade. Its northern limit includes the Great Smoky Mountains and other parts of North Carolina and Tennessee. Most of its populations are in the Piedmont from North Carolina to Alabama, under deciduous trees such as American beech, various oak and hickory species, and tulip poplar. Its southernmost natural occurrence is in Early County, Georgia."

    Taken from wikipedia's page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

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