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Texas Trillium (Trillium texanum)

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Photo Credit: Chris Doffitt

Global Rank: G3 - Vulnerable
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Melanthiaceae
State: AR, LA, TX
Nature Serve ID: 130896
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Rhizomatous perennial forming colonies of 4-12 inch tall flowering stems with leaf-like, grayish-green bracts in a single whorl at stem apex. Non-blooming stems have 1-3 deep green leaves. Flowers are showy, three-petalled, white but becoming pink & finally reddish with age.

Where is Texas Trillium (Trillium texanum) located in the wild?

Habitat:

In or along margins of hardwood forests on wet acid soils of bottoms and lower slopes. In woodlands it grows on both uplans and creek terraces, but perhaps most common on claypan savannas.

Distribution:

Endemic to southeastern Texas

States & Provinces:

Texas Trillium can be found in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas

Which CPC Partners conserve Texas Trillium (Trillium texanum)?

Mercer Botanic Gardens

Not Sponsored

Assigned 06/09/17

Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden

Not Sponsored

Assigned 08/09/17

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Conservation Actions

Nature Serve Biotics

05/02/2017

This species' distribution is limited to eastern Texas and one Parish in adjacent northwestern Louisiana. About 11 populations are known extant. Much of its bottomland habitat has been drained and converted to pine plantations.

Dave Berkshire

01/01/2010

timbering collecting. Development site in Nacogdoches Co. along Naconichess Creek is proposed site for reservoir. This site has the largest number of individuals.

Dave Berkshire

01/01/2010

10 historical populations in Texas

Dave Berkshire

01/01/2010

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Dave Berkshire

01/01/2010

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Dave Berkshire

01/01/2010

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Dave Berkshire

01/01/2010

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