Trillium viride L.C.Beck
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Melanthiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Rhizome thick and stout; stem 2–4 dm at anthesis; lvs sessile, narrowly to broadly elliptic, blunt to acute, 8–12 cm, not or obscurely mottled, minutely white-speckled on the upper side by the thickly scattered stomates (unique among our spp.); fl sessile, with the odor of rotten apples; sep lanceolate, spreading or recurved, 3.5–5 cm; pet erect, narrowly spatulate, 4–6 cm, usually greenish or yellowish beyond the more purplish claw; filaments 3.5–5+ mm, basally dilated; connective shortly (to 1 mm) or scarcely prolonged; stigmas equaling or a little shorter than the distally sharply 6-ridged or -winged, ovoid-ellipsoid ovary; 2n=10. Rich woods and moist rocky slopes; w. Ill. and e. Mo. Apr., May.
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Common Names
green trillium