Pseudotrillium rivale

Brook wakerobin, Brook Wakerobin

Family: Melanthiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Brook wakerobin is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges in yellow-pine forest along rocky streambanks at elevations of 40 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces white to pink flowers with distinctive purple spots, 1.5 to 3 centimeters long with ovate-cordate petals. Growing 5 to 20 centimeters tall with an unusual flowering stem that becomes recurved after pollination, it emerges with three distinctive leaves arranged in a single whorl. Its leaves are leathery, 1.7 to 11 centimeters long, ranging from lanceolate to heart-shaped with acute to pointed tips. The plant produces a berry-like capsule that is rarely dehiscent and is generally shed as a single unit.

Habitat: Yellow-pine forest along rocky streambanks and in

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 40-1500 m

Bioregions: KR

California counties: Del Norte, Siskiyou

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