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Trillium cuneatum
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Trillium cuneatum, the little sweet betsy, also known as whip-poor-will flower, large toadshade, purple toadshade, and bloody butcher, is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is a member of the Trillium cuneatum complex, a subgroup of the sessile-flowered trilliums. It is native to the southeastern United States but is especially common in a region that extends from southern Kentucky through central Tennessee to northern Alabama. In its native habitat, this perennial plant flowers from early March to late April. It is the largest of the eastern sessile-flowered trilliums.
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Trillium cuneatum
- Slug
- trillium-cuneatum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Genus
- Trillium
- Species
- cuneatum
- Wikidata QID
- Q3062186
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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