Trillium angustipetalum

Narrow petaled wakerobin

Family: Melanthiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Narrow petaled wakerobin is a California native perennial found in western Klamath Ranges, Sierra Nevada (excluding Tehachapi), southern Central Coast, and southern Coast Ranges in montane conifer forest, foothill woodland, chaparral, and riparian woodland at elevations of 30 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from March to April, this plant produces dark purple flowers with linear petals 5 to 11 centimeters long, emerging with a distinctive musty or fetid odor. Growing with stems 20 to 70 centimeters tall, it develops broad leaves 9 to 25 centimeters long with subtle light or dark green spotting. Its leaves are nearly stalkless, rounded to blunt at the tip, and arranged in a distinctive whorl. The fruit develops as a fleshy, six-angled spherical structure that is slightly winged.

Habitat: Montane conifer forest, foothill woodland, chaparral, riparian woodland

Bloom period: Mar-Apr

Elevation: 30-2000 m

Bioregions: w KR, SN (exc Teh), s CCo, SCoRO

California counties: San Luis Obispo, Amador, Placer, Santa Clara, Madera, Lake, Santa Barbara, El Dorado, Alameda, Calaveras, Del Norte, Humboldt, Mariposa, Nevada, Trinity, Yuba, Tuolumne, Siskiyou, Fresno, Colusa, Shasta

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.