Trillium

A small species with nodding flowers, we grow a mix of pink and the rarer alpine white forms, in general it is slow to clump up however I have seen large clumps in the Case garden.

Toad Shade, I love the name; I just wish my toads would use them. Large mottled leaves with red flowers in the axil. Flowers are not as sweet as luteum but who cares, a must for every collection. Cuneatum has been widely sold under the name sessile for years.

Toad Shade, I love the name; I just wish my toads would use them. Large mottled leaves with red flowers in the axil. Flowers are not as sweet as luteum but who cares, a must for every collection. Cuneatum has been widely sold under the name sessile for years.

A wide ranging eastern species typically with maroon red flowers on a stem above the leaves, it forms stunning hybrids with flexipes and indeed is so precocious with other plants in it’s section that it can be hard to find a completely pure strain. According to Fred Case, red forms are more common at higher elevations.

Nodding, white, sweet scented flowers are the attraction here. They prefer a somewhat neutral to alkaline soil and nod to varying degrees with northern forms often carrying their flowers below the leaves. The name apparently refers to the knee like bend at the top of the pedicel. Ovaries are typically white with pink streaks.