View source for Trillium ludovicianum

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|accepted_name=Trillium ludovicianum
|accepted_authority=Harbison
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Biltmore Bot. Stud.
|place=1: 23. 1901
|year=1901
}}
|common_names=Louisiana trillium
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Trillium;Trillium subg. Phyllantherum;Trillium ludovicianum
|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 ludovicianum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 95
|treatment_page=page 111
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>± horizontal, brownish, short, thick, praemorse, not brittle. <b>Scapes</b> 1–3, round in cross section, 1.4–2.6 dm, ± slender, glabrous. <b>Bracts</b> held well above ground, sessile; blade strongly mottled in dark and bronzy green, often with central light strip, mottling becoming somewhat obscure with age, lanceolate-ovate, 5.3–9.5 × 2.3–5 cm, not glossy, margins of distal 1/3 convex-curved to apex, apex rounded-acute. <b>Flower</b> erect, odor of carrion; sepals displayed above bracts, spreading, green, lanceolate-oblanceolate, 19–35 × 2.7–4 mm, margins entire, apex rounded or acute to sometimes weakly reflexed; petals long-lasting, faintly introrsely curved-erect-spreading, weakly connivent, ± concealing stamens and ovary, dark maroon-brown, purplish, or dull greenish, or 2-colored, basal portion purple, distal portion grayish green, not spirally twisted, oblanceolate-linear, 3.5–5.5 × 0.4–0.8 cm, thick-textured, thickened and weakly clawed basally, margins entire, apex acute; stamens erect, straight, 10–18 mm; filaments olive-orange, 2–3 mm, widened basally; anthers erect, straight, olive to orange, 7–20 mm, slender, dehiscence latrorse; connectives olive to orange, straight, scarcely extended beyond anther sac; ovary purple, ovoid, 6-angled, 8–9 mm; stigmas erect, with spreading or coiled tips, distinct, pale purple, subulate, 3–6 mm, ± fleshy. <b>Fruits</b> dark purplish green, little or no odor, ovoid, 6-angled, pulpy.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter–early spring (early Mar–Apr).
|habitat=Low flatwoods, floodplains along streams, steep ravine slopes leading to floodplains, mixed pine-beech woods
|elevation=50–500 m
|distribution=La.;Miss.
|discussion=<p>The range of <i>Trillium ludovicianum</i> is near to that of <i>T. cuneatum</i> in Mississippi, and the two appear to intergrade.</p>
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name=Trillium ludovicianum
|author=
|authority=Harbison
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter–early spring (early Mar–Apr).
|habitat=Low flatwoods, floodplains along streams, steep ravine slopes leading to floodplains, mixed pine-beech woods
|elevation=50–500 m
|distribution=La.;Miss.
|reference=None
|publication title=Biltmore Bot. Stud.
|publication year=1901
|special status=
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|genus=Trillium
|subgenus=Trillium subg. Phyllantherum
|species=Trillium ludovicianum
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