Quackin Grass Nursery

Trillium cuneatum – Common Toadshade also known as Sweet Betsy. This is a beautiful species with 1” to 1.5” upright spatulate petals in a dark maroon shade. The mid to late spring flower erupts over a gorgeous tapestry of irregularly mottled foliage in shades of green, bronzy brown to red-brown. Each ovate leaf may grow to 6” in length. The Common Toadshade, T. cuneatum, is a very showy species – we think not at all common! There is some confusion on our part as to whether or not this might actually be T. sessile... We're going with T. cuneatum. Russell Graham tells us that this might be another species altogether. Whereas he suggests that actual T. sessile is "cute" the plant we have designated as the Common Toadshade is vibrant, showy and relatively large. Apparently many of the sessile-types are simply lumped into this designation. This could possibly be ​T. cuneatum, T. chloropetalum, T. sessile or another in the complex... Who knows? That's more than rhetorical as there are genuine experts out there who really can distinguish. It may even be a hybrid as trilliums do hybridize with some ease. Whichever it might actually be it is worth it.