Melanthiaceae
Painted trillium
Trillium undulatum
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Genus
- Trillium
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Common names
By language (2)
- English
- Painted trillium
- French
- Trille ondulé
Synonyms
- Trillidium undulatum (Willd.) Floden & E.E.Schill.
- Trillium cleavelandicum Alph.Wood
- Trillium erythrocarpum Michx.
- Trillium erythrocarpum var. cleavelandicum Alph.Wood
- Trillium pictum Pursh
- Trillium undulatum f. cleavelandicum (Alph.Wood) Fernald
- Trillium undulatum f. enotatum T.S.Patrick
- Trillium undulatum f. polymerum Vict. ex Louis-Marie
- Trillium undulatum f. striatum Louis-Marie
- Trillium undulatum f. undulatum
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Homer Edward Price, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Homer Edward Price, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Nicholas A. Tonelli from Northeast Pennsylvania, USA, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Paul VanDerWerf from Brunswick, Maine, USA, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Robbie Sproule from Montreal, Canada, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ayotte, Gilles, 1948-, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ayotte, Gilles, 1948-, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ayotte, Gilles, 1948-, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ayotte, Gilles, 1948-, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.