Flower Spotlight: Trillium

In Ohio we have eight different species of Trillium:  T. navale (snow or dwarf trillium), T. grandiflorum (great white trillium-see photo above), T. sessile (toad shade/toad trillium), T. recurvatum (prairie trillium), T. erectum (red trillium-stinking trillium), T. undulatum(painted trillium), T. flexipes (drooping trillium), and T. cernuum (nodding trillium) - this last one is potentially extinct from Ohio's borders being a northern most, cool liking trillium, it is thought to have migrated north (into the lake).

Only one of these species can be found in all 88 Counties - The Great White Trillium - our state's official wildflower.

Below you can see bud to bloom of the Trillium grandiflorum, as well as a special find - Trillium flexipes (Drooping Trillium) that I found last year in Ashland County!

Beginning to unfurl

Open leaves with bud

Open flowers

Hillside covered

Drooping Trillium (Ashland Co.)