About Trillium maculatum Raf.
Trillium maculatum Raf. is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant that survives via an underground rhizome. Like all trilliums, it grows a whorl of three leaf-like bracts, and produces a single trimerous flower. This flower structure includes three sepals, three petals, two whorls of three stamens each, and three carpels fused into one ovary that bears three stigmas. The flower is sessile, meaning it has no flower stalk, and it has upright petals. The plant's leaves are mottled. Its flower petals are usually deep red or reddish-purple, but they may occasionally be yellow. This species is endemic to the southeastern United States, found across South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and northern Florida. Trillium maculatum flowers from early February to early April.
