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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Trillium gracile
|accepted_authority=J. D. Freeman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=3: 289. 1969
|year=1969
}}
|common_names=Slender trillium;graceful trillium
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Trillium;Trillium subg. Phyllantherum;Trillium gracile
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Trillium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Trillium subg. Phyllantherum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Trillium gracile]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 95, 117
|treatment_page=page 110
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>horizontal, brownish, thick, short, praemorse, not brittle. <b>Scapes</b> 1–3, round in cross section, 1.6–3.5 dm, slender, glabrous. <b>Bracts</b> held well above ground, sessile; blade mottled with darker green blotches, mottling becoming obscure with age, elliptic-ovate to obovate, 6–8.5 × 2.6–4 cm, base rounded, apex obtuse or rounded, rarely acute. <b>Flower</b> odor musty or funguslike; sepals displayed above bracts, bases at right angle to scape axis, widely spreading with recurved tips, dark purple on adaxial surface, lanceolate to oblong, 20–25 × 4–5 mm, margins entire, apex obtuse; petals long-lasting, erect, weakly connivent, at least partially obscuring stamens, dark purple or maroon, rarely yellow, not spirally twisted, linear-elliptic to oblanceolate, 2–4 × 0.3–0.8 cm, ± thick-textured, margins entire, flat, apex acute; stamens erect, 12–16.5 mm; filaments purple, 2–3 mm, slender; anthers erect, straight, purple to yellow, 10–15 mm, slender, dehiscence introrse; connectives straight, extending 0.1–1 mm beyond anther sacs; ovary purple, ovoid, 3-angled, 4–11 mm; stigmas erect, spreading-recurved, distinct, purple to whitish, sessile, subulate, 2–4 mm, fleshy, thickened basally. <b>Fruits</b> dark greenish purple, fragrance not reported, ovoid, swollen enough to conceal its 3-angled nature, 1 cm, pulpy, moist.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (early–mid Apr).
|habitat=Mature pine and hardwood forests, banks and ridges of dissected stream- beds, rather dense shade, low sandy flatwoods
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=La.;Tex.
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name=Trillium gracile
|author=
|authority=J. D. Freeman
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (early–mid Apr).
|habitat=Mature pine and hardwood forests, banks and ridges of dissected stream- beds, rather dense shade, low sandy flatwoods
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=La.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=1969
|special status=
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|genus=Trillium
|subgenus=Trillium subg. Phyllantherum
|species=Trillium gracile
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