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Trillium vaseyi

Sweet Beth

Plant Type:

SHADE PERENNIALS

Trillium vaseyi - Huge flowers up to as many as 4 inches in diameter are dark red to red-maroon on Sweet Beth. Yes, flowers are sweetly fragrant. Though the flowers are enormous by trillium standards they often bow on pedicels and nod below the leaves. Trillium vaseyi flowers later than most Toadshades. Site in part, dappled or open shade planted in rich woodland soil. Trillium may arrive bare root or potted.


Height:

16-24 in

Colors:

Dark Red

Zone:

(4)5 to 8(9)
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Characteristics and Attributes for Trillium vaseyi

Season of Interest (Flowering)

  • Spring

Season of Interest (Foliage)

  • Spring / Summer

Light

  • Morning Sun / Afternoon Shade
  • Shade
  • Dappled Shade

Attributes

  • Fragrant
  • Massing
  • Specimen
  • Woodland

Growth Rate in the Garden

  • Slow

Soil

  • Draining
  • Fertile

Origins

  • Southeastern U.S.

Propagated By

  • Bare Root
  • Division

Genus Overview: Trillium

Common Name: Toadshade

Trillium is a magnificent woodland genus; most of the 49 taxa (49 according to Don Jacobs whose authority I accept) grace us with their presence right here in North America, a handful in East Asia and nowhere else. They are spring bloomers with many becoming dormant by midsummer. Their structure is basic, this from “American Treasures” by Don L. Jacobs and Rob L. Jacobs: “Adult individuals produce no basal foliage, only a whorl of 3 leaves at the stem summit. Furthermore, all floral parts are in whorls of three: 3 sepals, 3 petals, and 3 seed-bearing carpels jointed into a single pistil with 3 pollen-receptor stigmas.” Henceforth, the “Tri” in Trillium makes simple and elegant sense. Be assured: none of our woodland plants are wild collected. Site Trillium in fertile draining soil in part sun to open shade. They are tolerant of dry summer shade. All our plants are offered by division of their slow growing rhizomes.