Prairie Trillium (Trillium recurvatum)
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Prairie Trillium is only native in Berrien county (in the far southwest corner) in the state of Michigan. They have naturalized in a few places in southeast Michigan due to being cultivated there. It is a species of special concern in the state.
Prairie Trillium is a plant of rich floodplains and upland beech-maple forests according to Michigan Flora. If you’d like to grow this in your yard, be sure to get an area ready with lots of organic material, preferably decaying leaves. Keep replenishing the leaves as they fully break down. You will want to make sure that the area keeps a medium moisture.
This plant is one of four trilliums in Michigan with red flowers (Trillium erectum, the red form of Trillium flexipes, Trillium recurvatum, and Trillium sessile). Trillium recurvatum (Prairie Trillium) has a sessile flower (no flower stem). Three red petals stick straight up from the center and are alternating with three pointy green sepals that curve downward. The leaves are not sessile (as in Trillium sessile, Toadshade) . They taper down to at least a short petiole and they are usually green/light green mottled and smooth.
Deer will eat the flowers and foliage of this plant. Though, one theory is that the mottled leaves may help to camouflage the plant against herbivory.
These plants can spread by rhizome and the seeds also have an eliasome attached to attract ants who will disperse the seeds.
Prairie Trillium (Trillium recurvatum)
Michigan Flora reference page for state distribution: Prairie Trillium
height: 12-18 inches
bloom time: April-June
soil: medium, rich
sun: sun in early spring, shade in summer
flower: burgundy, sometimes yellow
plant spacing: 15”
family: Trilliaceae
life cycle: perennial
Michigan Conservation Status: special concern.
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Prairie Trillium is only native in Berrien county (in the far southwest corner) in the state of Michigan. They have naturalized in a few places in southeast Michigan due to being cultivated there. It is a species of special concern in the state.
Prairie Trillium is a plant of rich floodplains and upland beech-maple forests according to Michigan Flora. If you’d like to grow this in your yard, be sure to get an area ready with lots of organic material, preferably decaying leaves. Keep replenishing the leaves as they fully break down. You will want to make sure that the area keeps a medium moisture.
This plant is one of four trilliums in Michigan with red flowers (Trillium erectum, the red form of Trillium flexipes, Trillium recurvatum, and Trillium sessile). Trillium recurvatum (Prairie Trillium) has a sessile flower (no flower stem). Three red petals stick straight up from the center and are alternating with three pointy green sepals that curve downward. The leaves are not sessile (as in Trillium sessile, Toadshade) . They taper down to at least a short petiole and they are usually green/light green mottled and smooth.
Deer will eat the flowers and foliage of this plant. Though, one theory is that the mottled leaves may help to camouflage the plant against herbivory.
These plants can spread by rhizome and the seeds also have an eliasome attached to attract ants who will disperse the seeds.
Prairie Trillium (Trillium recurvatum)
Michigan Flora reference page for state distribution: Prairie Trillium
height: 12-18 inches
bloom time: April-June
soil: medium, rich
sun: sun in early spring, shade in summer
flower: burgundy, sometimes yellow
plant spacing: 15”
family: Trilliaceae
life cycle: perennial
Michigan Conservation Status: special concern.
Prairie Trillium is only native in Berrien county (in the far southwest corner) in the state of Michigan. They have naturalized in a few places in southeast Michigan due to being cultivated there. It is a species of special concern in the state.
Prairie Trillium is a plant of rich floodplains and upland beech-maple forests according to Michigan Flora. If you’d like to grow this in your yard, be sure to get an area ready with lots of organic material, preferably decaying leaves. Keep replenishing the leaves as they fully break down. You will want to make sure that the area keeps a medium moisture.
This plant is one of four trilliums in Michigan with red flowers (Trillium erectum, the red form of Trillium flexipes, Trillium recurvatum, and Trillium sessile). Trillium recurvatum (Prairie Trillium) has a sessile flower (no flower stem). Three red petals stick straight up from the center and are alternating with three pointy green sepals that curve downward. The leaves are not sessile (as in Trillium sessile, Toadshade) . They taper down to at least a short petiole and they are usually green/light green mottled and smooth.
Deer will eat the flowers and foliage of this plant. Though, one theory is that the mottled leaves may help to camouflage the plant against herbivory.
These plants can spread by rhizome and the seeds also have an eliasome attached to attract ants who will disperse the seeds.
Prairie Trillium (Trillium recurvatum)
Michigan Flora reference page for state distribution: Prairie Trillium
height: 12-18 inches
bloom time: April-June
soil: medium, rich
sun: sun in early spring, shade in summer
flower: burgundy, sometimes yellow
plant spacing: 15”
family: Trilliaceae
life cycle: perennial
Michigan Conservation Status: special concern.
