title: Trillium vaseyi
text: # Trillium vaseyi
  
  Trillium vaseyi, the sweet wakerobin or sweet beth, is a spring flowering perennial plant which is found only in the southeastern United States, primarily in the southern part of the Appalachian Mountains but with a few populations farther south.
  
  ## Description
  
  Sweet wakerobin has among the largest flowers in the trillium family, with red petals up to 7 cm long. It grows in rich woods, sometimes on riverbanks but other times on steep slopes.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  Trillium vaseyi was described by American botanist Thomas Grant Harbison in 1901.
  
  ## Conservation
  
  As of April 2023, the global conservation status of Trillium vaseyi is listed as vulnerable and near threatened by NatureServe and IUCN (resp.). It is critically imperiled in Alabama.
  
  