Toadshade Trillium
Trillium cuneatum
Lily Family
Little Sweet Betsy is the one of the earliest trillium to bloom in spring and is widespread.
There is also a form with bronze petals.
Lily Family
Little Sweet Betsy is the one of the earliest trillium to bloom in spring and is widespread. There is also a form with bronze petals.
Yellow Toadshade Trillium
Trillium luteum
Lily Family
Once considered a subspecies of T. cuneatum , Yellow Toadshade is fairly widespread and
very common on the western side of the Great Smoky Mtn. NP. Oddly, they do not grow here where I live in the
southern Blue Ridge. The petals are longer and narrower than T. discolor and their ranges do not overlap. Thanks to Linda F. for contributing this photo---GSMNP
Lily Family
Once considered a subspecies of T. cuneatum , Yellow Toadshade is fairly widespread and very common on the western side of the Great Smoky Mtn. NP. Oddly, they do not grow here where I live in the southern Blue Ridge. The petals are longer and narrower than T. discolor and their ranges do not overlap. Thanks to Linda F. for contributing this photo---GSMNP
Pale Yellow or Faded Trillium
Trillium discolor
Lily Family
Limited in range to the upper Savannah River drainage in NC, SC, and GA and listed as "critically imperiled", however is locally abundant. Do not confuse, as I did, with T. luteum , Yellow Toadshade, this trillium has broad, spatulate petals with points on the tips.
Photo--04.18.04 in Jackson County, Whitewater Falls.
Lily Family
Limited in range to the upper Savannah River drainage in NC, SC, and GA and listed as "critically imperiled", however is locally abundant. Do not confuse, as I did, with T. luteum , Yellow Toadshade, this trillium has broad, spatulate petals with points on the tips.
Photo--04.18.04 in Jackson County, Whitewater Falls.