Painted Trillium
Trillium undulatum
Painted trillium is an exquisite acid-loving woodland trillium with white petals brushed crimson at the base, demanding the cool, moist, humus-rich soil of conifer and mountain forests.
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0.5–1.5 ft
- Spacing
- 0.5–1 ft apart
- Light
- part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- acidic
- Bloom
- April, May
- Bloom colors
- white, pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- border, container, rain garden
- Native states
- CT, KY, MA, MD, ME, NC, NH, NY, PA, TN, VA, VT, WV