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I am only just starting with Trilliums, in the hope that they will prosper in the woodland. I have yet to grow them big enough to plant out.
This one came as a prepacked rhizome from a garden centre. Writing in 'The Plantsman' in 1989, Robert J. Mitchell says: Distribution. North Carolina to Kentucky, south to Mississippi and Alabama. Trillium cuneatum is regarded by some authors as synonym of Trillium hugeri. Others link T. hugeri with T. viride or place it as a synonym of T. cuneatum. Recent opinion cites T. cuneatum as the correct name with T. hugeri in synonymy. This tall species grows in neutral to calcareous soils in mixed wodland, but it is also found on a variety of soils derived from granite, and in sandy alluvium. It shares a similar distribution with T. luteum and overlaps into the range of T. maculatum, but has a wider distribution than any member of the 'Maculatum Group'." Case and Case say: "This largest of eastern sessile trilliums grows over almost as vast an area as any eastern sessile species. As one would expect, with so large a range, many forms, mostly unnamed, occur. Trillium cuneatum is most magnificent carpeting the forest floor over Ordovician limestone or shale bluffs in southern Kentucky, wooded hillsides in south-central Tennessee, and near Huntsville, Alabama. Its large size, rich dark flower, and strongly mottled leaves create an impression not to be forgotten." |
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| 8th April 2006 | ||
