Common Names in English: Sweet Wakerobin, Sweet Beth, Sweet
Trillium, Vasey's Trillium, Vaseys Trillium ; rhizomes
subterranean , horizontal or semierect, monopodial, unbranched
or weakly branched, elongated to thick and fleshy , compressed-
shortened, distal end tapered to point , apex bearing large
terminal cataphylls, and contractile, adventitious, ringed roots
. Scapes arising from terminal bud or axil of adjacent
(subterranean in T. petiolatum), erect , straight (decumbent ,
S-shaped in T. decumbens and T. reliquum). Bracts on mature in
whorl of 3, uniformly green or mottled or sessile, venation
palmate-reticulate, with 3-5 major veins, ovate . Inflorescences
terminal, 1-flowered. Flowers: some totally to partially
syncarpous or sessile; sepals persistent , 3, distinct , green,
maroon, or with maroon markings, foliaceous, oblong , ovate, or
lanceolate, alternating with bracts; petals shriveling after
anthesis , typically 3, erect, spreading , or recurved,
distinct, red, purple, pink, white, yellow, green,