Good Friday finds
Trillium Question for you all, So last year I saw this growing in a local woodland park and for some reason I wanted to call it T. chloropetalum, This year I went poking around in the same woodland and found a bigger population of it, and here I am again and scratching my head now because it looks an aweful lot like T. kurabayashii. But then I started doing my research again and I realize that neither of those species grows this far north.
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Can any trillium experts out there give a decent id? I would be pretty stoked to find out it's some northern subspecies and it gets named for me, I mean after all isn't that the holy grail for any plantsman? I always wish I could have lived back in the days of true botanical exploration, when almost every plant you saw stepping off a sailing ship was new to science. Or maybe its just Trillium kurabayashii actually has a disjunct northern population?
Sunny and warm with temps hitting the 60's this week, and the weekend looks almost as good! Happy easter to you if you are out hunting eggs.
Cheers,
Mark
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Hope it is something different and gets named for you. :) I don't know half of what I should about trillium - I grow several but they are not my "oh god, gotta have it" plant. When will the list for 2018 be ready? Some of us can't wait.
ReplyDeleteHi Fritchick, It appears to be a good old fashioned Trillium kurabayashii, but still no one can explain how they have managed to move north so quickly?? Catalog should be out Mid-summer as I think I'll have a few fall bloomers in the mix this year I'll likely shoot for end of July. All the best,
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T kurabayashii has wider petals. This photo is from redwood Creek in Humboldt CO. https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=681025&one=T
DeleteNorth, meaning? It does resemble T angustifolium (narrow tepals) that grow in this area: https://calscape.org/Trillium-angustipetalum-() I grow TRAN and it is, I believe, the same epecies.
ReplyDeleteHi Jermo, North meaning it was found growing in a natural area along the willamette River near Salem Oregon. I think that would be considered well north of it's native range.
DeleteIndeed. Yet, it resembles T. angustifolium and you have discovered an unknown population. My suggestion is to contact Aaron Liston, Prof and herbarium director, OSU, 541-737-5301. 4575 SW Research Way, Corvallis.
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