Trillium flexipes, known as the nodding wakerobin, bent trillium, or drooping trillium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is found from Minnesota to Ohio, south to Tennessee, with isolated (and sometimes rare) populations in New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and other states. It is an endangered species in Ontario and threatened in North Carolina.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Drooping trillium being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Trillium rugelii
- Trillium tschonoskii
- Trillium cernuum
- Trillium simile
- Trillium camschatcense
- Trillium vaseyi
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Liliales
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Genus
- Trillium
- Species
- Trillium flexipes
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