Trillium

Trillium luteum:  Z 6-8 N.A.Native These trilliums have mottled purple and green foliage with a yellow bloom nestled in the middle.

Trillium flexipes:  Z 7-8 N.A.Native  This is a rich creamy white semi nodding trillium.  It prefers cool moist woodlands and is found among stream banks with alders and upland woods of mixed conifers.

Trillium grandiflorum:  Z 6-8 N.A.Native. This spring bloomer is a large snow-white trillium with large blooms that fade to pink and rose.  This species will get up to 18 inches tall.

Trillium ovatum:  Z 6-8 N.A.Native This northwest native is a must for naturalizing a woodland garden.  Flowers are white and fade to pink.  The single flower is on top of three bold and symmetrical leaves.  Trilliums prefer rich well-drained soil.

Trillium catesbaei:  Z 7-8 N.A.Native.  This is a rose pink semi nodding spring bloomer.  Its is great for the shade garden and a great companion of ferns and orchids.

Trillium erectum:  Z 7-8 N.A.Native This is a early spring wildflower that prefers cool moist soil.  Occurs in upland forests of deciduous to conifers and among rhododendrons.

Trillium vaseyi:  Z 7-8 N.A.Native  This is similar to erectum, except the flowers are much larger and are a deep rich red.  These plants tend to stay in smaller clumps or even as single specimens.

Trillium chloropetalum: Z 5-9  N.A.Native.  This is a large sessile trillium with white, sometimes splashed creamy pink at the base.  The leaves are mottled with dark patterns.  

Trillium sessile:  Z 4-9 N.A.Native.  This species has mottled silver-green foliage with brown-purple markings.  The blooms are red and nessled on top of the foliage.

Paris  sp.:  Z 6-8 This is a woodland relative of trilliums.  It is a very rare plant in western gardens.  This dworf species has white marbled leaves with a solid purple back.  The unusual blooms have yellow anthers. Eventually these gems will form colonies similar to trilliums.

Paris polyphylla:  Z5-9 Himalayas, China. This is a clumping trillium relative with upright stems topped with twelve leaves to seven inches long.  The flowers have up to eight green sepals and yellow petals with a purple ovary.  Plant in the shade with  moist well drained soil.  

Paris quadrifolia:  Z5-9  Asia, This has upright stems with four oval  leaves to six inches long. Flowers have four green sepals and white petals.