Trillium gracile, commonly known as the Sabine River wakerobin,[3]slender trillium,[4] or graceful trillium,[5] is a
species of
flowering plant in the
familyMelanthiaceae. It is native to the region along the
Sabine River in western
Louisiana and eastern
Texas.[6] It generally grows in mature pine and hardwood forests, and on riverbanks.[7][8]
Trillium gracile is a
perennialherbaceous plant that spreads by means of underground
rhizomes. The stem has 3
bracts in a
whorl well above ground, each bract up to 8.5 cm (3.4 inches) long, the blades green mottled with darker green splotches. Flowers are solitary on each scape, purple with a musty-like fragrance.[4][9][10]
^USDA, NRCS (n.d.).
"Trillium gracile". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
^"Trillium gracile". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
^Berg, R. Y. 1958. Seed dispersal, morphology, and phylogeny of Trillium. Skr. Norske Vidensk.-Akad. Oslo, Mat.-Natkurvidensk. Kl. 1958(1): 1–36.
^Case, F. W. and R. B. Case. 1997. Trilliums. Portland. Gates, R. R. 1917b. A systematic study of the North American genus Trillium, its variability and its relation to Paris and Medeola. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 4: 43–92.