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|accepted_name=Trillium nivale
|accepted_authority=Riddell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Fl. West. States,
|place=93. 1835
|year=1835
}}
|common_names=Snow trillium;dwarf white trillium
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Trillium;Trillium subg. Trillium;Trillium nivale
|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. Trillium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Trillium nivale]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 92
|treatment_page=page 100
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>short, praemorse. <b>Scapes</b> usually 1, 6-gonal in cross section, 0.3–0.5 dm at onset of anthesis, expanding to 0.45–0.8 dm, slender, glabrous. <b>Bracts</b> distinctly petiolate; blade bluish green, elliptic-ovate to ovate, 1.5–4.5 cm × 0.7–34 mm, base abruptly rounded to petiole, apex round-obtuse. <b>Flower</b> erect, fragrance sweet; sepals spreading, flat, bluish green, lanceolate, 10–32 × 2–7 mm, shorter than petals, margins entire, apex obtuse; petals very showy, recurved to erect-spreading, white, veins not engraved on adaxial surface, ovate-elliptic to oblong, 1.5–3.5+ × 0.8–1.5 cm, thin- to firm-textured, margins entire to slightly wavy, apex obtuse-acuminate; stamens straight, 5–18 mm; filaments white, slightly shorter than anthers, slender; anthers straight, pale yellow, 2.5–11 mm, thin, dehiscence introrse; ovary greenish white, ± globular, obtusely 3-angled; style with tips spreading, elongate, 0.5–1.5 mm, slender; stigmas prominent, recurved or curled, connate basally, white, linear, threadlike, 4–12+ mm; pedicel erect in anthesis, rapidly recurving below leaves after pollination, 5–20 cm. <b>Fruits</b> greenish white, odorless, globose-ovate, 0.6–1 × 0.5–0.8 cm, pulpy, not juicy. <b>2n</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (early Mar–early Apr).
|habitat=Forested, limestone-derived soils, alkaline glacial drift or loess, creeping soils at head of ledges, talus of cliff bases, crevices in limestone cliffs, gravelly deposits on higher floodplain riverbanks
|elevation=100–300 m
|distribution=Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Nebr.;Ohio;Pa.;S.Dak.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Trillium nivale</i> occurs primarily at the southern edge of Pleistocene glaciation and shuns humus, leaf deposits, and much plant competition.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Trillium nivale
|authority=Riddell
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (early Mar–early Apr).
|habitat=Forested, limestone-derived soils, alkaline glacial drift or loess, creeping soils at head of ledges, talus of cliff bases, crevices in limestone cliffs, gravelly deposits on higher floodplain riverbanks
|elevation=100–300 m
|distribution=Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;Nebr.;Ohio;Pa.;S.Dak.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Fl. West. States,
|publication year=1835
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_104.xml
|genus=Trillium
|subgenus=Trillium subg. Trillium
|species=Trillium nivale
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