Trillium vaseyi Harb.

Vasey's Trillium; Sweet Beth; Sweet Wakerobin

Herb

Perennial

Vascular

A pedicellate species with flowers that nod beneath the leaves. The flowers have maroon petals.

The presence of this species in Alabama is a bit of an enigma. Freeman knew of its occurrence in Lee County (pers. comm.) but oddly no specimens exist in the Auburn Herbarium from his experience. Tom Patrick observed it in Chewacla State Park (pers. comm.) also in Lee County but no specimens are known from that observation. The only specimen in the Atlas was taken from cultivation at the home of Dr. Sam Jones of Smiths Station, a local Veterinarian and plant enthusiast now deceased. In 2002, Dr. Jones took B. Keener to the site of where the cultivated material was originally collected, but the area had been logged. Pedicellate species of Trillium were found but were weakened from too much sunlight.

Native S1? (State Rank) G4 (Global Rank)

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