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|accepted_name=Trillium persistens
|accepted_authority=W. H. Duncan
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=73: 244. 1971
|year=1971
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Trillium;Trillium subg. Trillium;Trillium persistens
|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 persistens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 92
|treatment_page=page 101
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>horizontal to erect, short, praemorse. <b>Scapes</b> 1–2, round in cross section, 2–3 dm, slender, glabrous. <b>Bracts</b> horizontal to drooping distally, sessile; blade 3–5-veined, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3–8.5+ × 1.5–3.5 cm, adaxial surface faintly glossy, rarely with ± 2 mm, winged, petiolelike base, apex acuminate. <b>Flower</b> opening above bracts; sepals spreading, green, elliptic to narrowly ovate, 11–22 × 5–6 mm, thin-textured, margins entire, apex acute; petals erect proximally, spreading distally, white, fading to deep pink with inverted V-shaped basal portion remaining white, veins not engraved, linear-elliptic to occasionally linear, 2–3.5 × 0.5–1 cm, thin-textured, margins undulate at least in distal portion, apex acute; stamens prominent, erect to divergent, straight, 9–14 mm; filaments ± equaling anthers; anthers straight, yellow or white, dehiscence introrse; connective barely longer than anther sacs; ovary white or greenish white, obovate, very sharply 6-angled, 2.5–6 mm; style 2–6 mm; stigmas erect, slightly divergent at tip, delicate, not lobed, shortly connate basally, uniformly thin; pedicel erect or slightly leaning, 1–3 cm, 1/4–1/2 bract length at anthesis. <b>Fruits</b> baccate, greenish white, 6-angled, pulpy, not juicy.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (early Mar–mid Apr).
|habitat=Humus soils in mixed deciduous-pine woodlands, along stream flats and at edges of Rhododendron thickets, occasionally in open Vaccinium-filled clearings
|elevation=50 m
|distribution=Ga.;S.C.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>Listed as a U.S. endangered species, <i>Trillium persistens</i> has appeared as such on a postage stamp. The species is very rare and known only from an approximately four-square-mile area at the head of Tallulah Gorge in Georgia and South Carolina.</p>
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name=Trillium persistens
|authority=W. H. Duncan
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (early Mar–mid Apr).
|habitat=Humus soils in mixed deciduous-pine woodlands, along stream flats and at edges of Rhododendron thickets, occasionally in open Vaccinium-filled clearings
|elevation=50 m
|distribution=Ga.;S.C.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=1971
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_108.xml
|genus=Trillium
|subgenus=Trillium subg. Trillium
|species=Trillium persistens
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