Trillium grandiflorum (Great White Trillium)

Great White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)

Height, Spread: 1-3 ft, 1 ft

Water/Soil: Moist, well-drained, high organic matter

Light: Dappled Sunlight-Deep Shade

Bloom: Spring, white solitary three-petaled flower

Native Range: Eastern North America

Qualities: Attractive to pollinators, Larval host plant, NC Native

Notes: Herbaceous perennial wildflower found in Northern Hardwood forests and Rich Cove Forests in the NC Mountains and Piedmont foothills (easternmost counties are Rockingham and Davidson.) Known as one of the largest and showiest trilliums. As a spring ephemeral, it provides early season nectar to pollinators when most other flowers are still dormant. It is a larval host plant for the Black-patched Clepsis moth (Clepsis melaleucanus) and the American Angle Shades moth (Euplexia benesimilis). Best planted in a shaded garden with rich, humusy soil or in a naturalized woodland area.