View source for Trillium sessile

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|accepted_name=Trillium sessile
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 340. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Sessile trillium;toad trillium;toadshade
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Trillium;Trillium subg. Phyllantherum;Trillium sessile
|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 sessile]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 96, 110
|treatment_page=page 115
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>horizontal, brownish, thick, praemorse, fleshy. <b>Scapes</b> 1–3, round in cross section, 0.8–2.5 dm, slender to stout, glabrous. <b>Bracts</b> held well above ground, sessile; blade green to bluish green, strongly to sparsely mottled, mottling becoming obscure with age, oval to suborbicular, 4–10 × 2–8 cm, base broadly attached, apex rounded-acuminate to bluntly parallel sided-acuminate (rounded basally to its broad attachment). <b>Flower</b> erect, odor pungent, spicy; sepals displayed above bracts, spreading, green, variously streaked with maroon, lanceolate-oblanceolate, 9–35 × 4–8 mm, margins entire, apex rounded-acuminate; petals long-lasting, erect, ± connivent, ± concealing stamens and ovary, maroon, brownish maroon, green, or yellowish green, not spirally twisted, oblanceolate to elliptic, occasionally almost orbicular, 1.7–3.5 × 0.7–2 cm, thick-textured, narrowed near basal attachment (but not truly clawed), margins entire, apex gradually rounded-tapered to acute; stamens straight, 10–23 mm; filaments red-purple, 2–5 mm, dilated basally; anthers erect, straight, gray-purple, 9–16 mm, thick, dehiscence introrse; connectives purplish brown, straight, projecting 2–5+ mm beyond anther sacs; ovary greenish white basally, purple distally, ovoid to globose, 6-angled, pyramidally narrowed to stigmas, 4–8.5 mm; stigmas erect, divergent-recurved, distinct, purple, subulate, 1–5 mm, ± fleshy. <b>Fruits</b> baccate, dark greenish purple, odorless, subglobose, 6-angled, angles somewhat winglike, pulpy, not juicy. <b>2n</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–early May).
|habitat=Rich woodlands, limestone districts, calcareous soils, floodplains, riverbanks, clayey alluvium, less fertile soils, high, dry limestone woods, persists under light pasturing, in fencerows and brushy areas after lumbering
|elevation=100–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Mo.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>Trillium sessile is rather uniform throughout its range, with few color forms.</p>
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name=Trillium sessile
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–early May).
|habitat=Rich woodlands, limestone districts, calcareous soils, floodplains, riverbanks, clayey alluvium, less fertile soils, high, dry limestone woods, persists under light pasturing, in fencerows and brushy areas after lumbering
|elevation=100–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Mo.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_139.xml
|genus=Trillium
|subgenus=Trillium subg. Phyllantherum
|species=Trillium sessile
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