Great White Trillium - Trillium grandiflorum
Above: Great White Trillium on hill near Council Ring in Madison, Wisconsin on May 7, 2019.
Great White Trillium - Trillium grandiflorum (Spring Ephemeral)
Trillium grandiflorum is most common in rich, mixed upland forests. It is easily recognized by its attractive three-petaled white flowers, opening from late spring to early summer, that rise above a whorl of three, leaf-like bracts. It is an example of a spring ephemeral, a plant whose life-cycle is synchronised with that of the deciduous woodland which it favours.
Trillium grandiflorum as well as other trilliums are a favored food of white-tailed deer.
Other names include: White trillium, large-flowered trillium, white wake-robin, French: trille blanc.
Above: Great White Trillium near Council Ring Spring in Madison, Wisconsin on May 7, 2019.
For more information on Trillium grandiflorum, visit Wikipedia.
Or, visit the: Wisconsin State Herbarium.
Great White Trillium
Trillium grandiflorum
Above: Great White Trillium on hill near Council Ring (4/26/19)
Above: Great White Trillium on hill near Council Ring (5/05/21)
Above: Great White Trillium on hill near Council Ring (5/05/19)
Above: Great White Trillium on hill near Council Ring (5/13/19)
Above: Great White Trillium on hill near Council Ring (5/15/19)
Above: Great White Trillium turning pink near Agawa Path in Madison, Wisconsin (5/21/21)
Above: 1923 Great White Trillium illustration by Mary Vaux Walcott. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist.
Above: 1913 Great White Trillium illustration.
Above: 1918 Great White Trillium illustration by Mary Vaux Walcott.
