Trillium rugelii

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Family:	MELANTHIACEAE
Species:	Trillium rugelii Rendle
Common Name:	Southern Nodding Trillium; Ill Scented Wakerobin
Habitat:	Rich mesic hardwoods.
Associated Ecological Communities:	**
Growth Habit:	Herb
Duration:	Perennial
Category:	Vascular
USDA Symbol:	**
Plant Notes:	Southern Nodding Trillium is a native herbaceous perennial in the Trillium family (Trilliaceae). It occurs primarily in eastern and northern Alabama. Southern Nodding Trillium grows in rich hardwood forests, along streams, and in rocky woods. It is a perennial from a short, thick rhizome. Each rhizome usually produces a single stem topped by three bracts (leaves). Stems are from 6-18 inches in height. The bracts are green, petiolate, rhombic in outline, glabrous, and entire. Each mature plant produces a single flower. Southern Nodding Trillium is a member of the pedicellate group of Trilliums. These Trilliums have flowers on a short stalk (the pedicel). The flowers of Southern Nodding Trillium are strongly nodding below the bracts. Each flower has three spreading green sepals, three recurved white (rarely rose or purple) petals, and six reddish or white stamens. The fruit is a pulpy maroon capsule with several seed. When mature the seed in brown in color with a white elaiosome. Southern Nodding Trillium is listed as an S2 species in Alabama (typically 6 to 20 occurrences, few remaining individuals, or factors demonstrably making it very vulnerable in the state), and globally as a G3 species (imperiled globally because of rarity or very vulnerable to extinction throughout its range because of other factors). Southern Nodding Trillium is sometimes available from wildflower nurseries. Only purchase plants from nurseries who have grown them and not those selling wild collected plants. Southern Nodding Trillium prefers a moist to mesic organic rich soil in partial to full shade. Plants can be naturalized in a woodland or planted in beds under hardwoods.—A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:	**
Status:	Native, S2? (State Rank), G3 (Global Rank)
References:	**
Specimen:	View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

** Not applicable or data not available.

Classification

Family	MELANTHIACEAE - Bunchflower family
Genus	Trillium
Species	Trillium rugelii Rendle - Southern Nodding Trillium; Ill Scented Wakerobin

Citation

Citation	Trillium rugelii Rendle, J. Bot. 39(466): 331–332, pl. 426, f. B. 1901.
Basionym:	**
Type:	USA: NORTH CAROLINA: on the mountains at Broad River, Mar 1841, Rugel s.n. (BM?).

** Not applicable or data not available.

Synonyms

No synonyms exist for this species.

No synonyms exist for this species.

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, DeKalb, Elmore, Etowah, Fayette, Jackson, Jefferson, Lee, Lowndes, Randolph, Shelby, St. Clair, Talladega, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Wilcox

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AMAL, AUA, JSU, SAMF, TROY, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1965 - 1987

Barcode / Accession No.	County	Coll. Date	Collector & Collection No.	Herbarium & Herbarium Name Used
TROY000011293	Lee	30 Mar 2001	Threlkeld, Steven J. 1379	TROY Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000336	Lee	8 Apr 1970	Davidson, John	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
JSU146132	Cleburne	29 Apr 1997	Hutchinson, Francine 2473	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
AMAL00014858	Coosa	19 Apr 2008	Schotz, Alfred 2079	AMAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112761	Talladega	10 Apr 1981	Whetstone, R. David 10516	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
SAMF0000570	Shelby	14 Apr 1996	Stiles, Jimmy 20	SAMF Trillium rugelii Rendle
UWAL0002533	Tuscaloosa	30 Mar 2009	Keener, Brian R. 5127	UWAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
UWAL0054166	Talladega	10 Apr 2020	Spaulding, Daniel D. 16880	UWAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000024568	St. Clair	7 Apr 2007	Keener, Brian R. 3455	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
ALNHS00002594	Randolph	15 May 2014	Barger, T. Wayne SP#1387	ALNHS Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000348	Shelby	19 Jun 1977	Sessler, Ann H. 1616	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
UWAL0002534	Walker	01 Apr 2007	Keener, Brian R. 3434	UWAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000333	Lee	31 Mar 1969	Moore, Harold D. 019-69	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
AUA000000329	Cleburne	16 Apr 1968	O'Neal, Judy	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
UNA00026069	Clay	30 Apr 1987	Haynes, Robert R. 9017	UNA Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000334	Lee	29 Aug 1988	Freeman, John D. S. N.	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
TROY000025946	St. Clair	07 Apr 2007	Keener, Brian R. 3455	TROY Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112763	Talladega	5 May 1980	Whetstone, R. David 9945	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000345	Lee	4 Apr 2001	Hansen, Curtis J. 2001-25	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
JSU112757	Etowah	8 Apr 1967	Prater, Pat s.n.	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112743	Clay	20 Mar 1993	Ballard, J. Mark 1386	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112752	Cleburne	16 Apr 1968	Stuart, Martha s.n.	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
AMAL00001234	Blount	28 Mar 1998	Keener, Brian R. 540	AMAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112756	Cleburne	8 Apr 1970	Heathcock, Doug A. s.n.	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
ALNHS00001778	Lee	06 May 2013	Barger, T. Wayne SP#925	ALNHS Trillium rugelii Rendle
AMAL00010418	Randolph	22 Apr 1988	Nixon, Christoper F. 3682	AMAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
UWAL0034770	Cleburne	23 Apr 1990	Kral, Robert 77372	UWAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
AMAL00023325	Fayette	30 Mar 2016	Keener, Brian R. 9430	AMAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
TROY000025947	Walker	01 Apr 2007	Keener, Brian R. 3434	TROY Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000025988	Wilcox	29 Mar 2008	Schotz, Alfred 2072	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
JSU112744	Clay	2 May 1981	Whetstone, R. David 10669	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000337	Lee	29 Apr 1959	Brady, Jr., V.E.	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
UNA00026059	DeKalb	16 Apr 1965	Nelson, Walter R. s.n.	UNA Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000340	Lee	22 Apr 1965	Schultz, Don	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
AUA000000331	Fayette	20 Apr 1965	Kral, Robert 23756	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
UNA00068793	Wilcox	03 Apr 2008	Keener, Brian R. 4173	UNA Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112759	Lee	17 Apr 1969	Bozarth, Gene A. s.n.	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000347	Lee	17 May 1979	Owsley, C.Michael	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
UNA00022112	Shelby	29 Mar 1973	Kral, Robert 49435	UNA Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000343	Lee	18 Apr 1969	Moore, Harold D. 101-69	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
UNA00026068	Coosa	15 Apr 1977	Harvey, Denise 172	UNA Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000346	Shelby	12 Apr 1998	Schotz, Alfred 1607	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
JSU112742	Cherokee	15 Apr 1967	Reynolds, Elaine s.n.	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112758	Jackson	25 May 1995	Ballard, J. Mark 5573	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000338	Lee	10 Apr 1959	Dorough, Wyman	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
AMAL00003168	St. Clair	7 Apr 2007	Keener, Brian R. 3455	AMAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112755	Cleburne	14 Apr 1997	Spaulding, Daniel D. 9664	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000328	Clay	12 Apr 1979	Pitts, J.	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
JSU112760	St. Clair	23 Apr 1984	Whetstone, R. David 15000	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
UWAL0002950	Lowndes	20 May 2010	Keener, Brian R. 6004	UWAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
ALNHS00006846	Lee	02 Apr 2020	Barger, T. Wayne SP#5147	ALNHS Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000035454	Calhoun	12 Apr 2013	Schotz, Alfred 2180	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
JSU112747	Clay	18 Apr 1980	Whetstone, R. David 9854	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000330	Elmore	28 Apr 1966	Berry, Robert	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
UNA00054157	Blount	28 Mar 1998	Keener, Brian R. 540	UNA Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000039517	Lee	6 Apr 1954	Hocking, George M. 1017	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
AUA000000247	Shelby	16 Apr 1973	Kral, Robert 49671	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
UNA00066996	Walker	01 Apr 2007	Keener, Brian R. 3434	UNA Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000332	Lee	8 Apr 1969	Hall, William G. 066	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
AUA000000339	Lee	9 Apr 1969	Gregory, J.M. 087	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
UNA00026067	Lee	30 Apr 1980	Haynes, Robert R. 7760	UNA Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000326	Blount	23 Jun 1985	Freeman, John D. S. N.	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
TROY000026047	Wilcox	03 Apr 2008	Keener, Brian R. 4173	TROY Trillium rugelii Rendle
AMAL00016268	Lee	6 Apr 2009	Barger, T. Wayne 40	AMAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112750	Cleburne	8 Apr 1971	Bryant, Susan s.n.	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
UWAL0033896	Fayette	30 Mar 2016	Keener, Brian R. 9430	UWAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112749	Cleburne	28 Apr 1976	Atkinson, Tim A. 1443	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
AMAL00015917	Walker	1 Apr 2007	Keener, Brian R. 3434	AMAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112753	Cleburne	8 Apr 1970	Heathcock, Doug A. s.n.	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
AMAL00022290	Cleburne	28 Apr 2015	Hodge, Lesley M. 4521	AMAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000335	Lee	13 Apr 1978	Grant, Mary P. 057	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
JSU112754	Cleburne	8 Apr 1971	Johnson, Jean s.n.	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000344	Lee	11 Apr 1985	Freeman, John D. S. N.	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
JSU112748	Cleburne	12 May 1980	Whetstone, R. David 10128	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
SAMF0000571	Jefferson	27 Apr 2007	Davenport, Lawrence J. 3690	SAMF Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112751	Cleburne	16 Apr 1968	Brown, Dickie s.n.	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
UWAL0002532	St. Clair	07 Apr 2007	Keener, Brian R. 3455	UWAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000342	Lee	9 Apr 1969	Sheldon, Joe 7.2	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
UWAL0002535	Wilcox	03 Apr 2008	Keener, Brian R. 4173	UWAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000327	Clay	12 Apr 1979	Creswell, Tommy 064	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
JSU112746	Clay	30 Jul 1994	Ballard, J. Mark 4283	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
TROY000034043	Lowndes	20 May 2010	Keener, Brian R. 6004	TROY Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112745	Clay	10 Apr 1981	Whetstone, R. David 10508	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
SAMF0000583	Walker	01 Apr 2007	Keener, Brian R. 3434	SAMF Trillium rugelii Rendle
UWAL0002531	Coosa	28 Apr 2008	Keener, Brian R. 4372	UWAL Trillium rugelii Rendle
JSU112762	Talladega	2 May 1981	Whetstone, R. David 10618	JSU Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000024571	Walker	1 Apr 2007	Keener, Brian R. 3434	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
UNA00065506	Randolph	22 Apr 1988	Nixon, Christopher F. 3681	UNA Trillium rugelii Rendle
AUA000000341	Lee	4 Feb 1966	Searcy, James W.	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
AUA000000246	Shelby	29 Mar 1973	Kral, Robert 49435	AUA Trillium Rugelii Rendle
UNA00067003	St. Clair	07 Apr 2007	Keener, Brian R. 3455	UNA Trillium rugelii Rendle

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Data last modified: 11/9/2024

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Citation Information:

Keener, B.R., A.R. Diamond, T.W. Barger, L.J. Davenport, P.G. Davison, S.L. Ginzbarg, C.J. Hansen, D.D. Spaulding, J.K. Triplett, and M. Woods. 2024. Alabama Plant Atlas. [S.M. Landry and K.N. Campbell (original application development), Florida Center for Community Design and Research. University of South Florida]. University of West Alabama, Livingston, Alabama.

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