Common Names: Sweet Betsy, Whip-poor-will Flower, Large Toadshade, Purple Toadshade, Bloody Butcher

No listed varieties

Note three whorled, sessile, broadly ovate, mottled leaves with a single sessile flower with three =/- purple, green or yellow petals, much longer/larger than stamens.

The largest and generally earliest to bloom, sessile stem trilliums on the east coast.

TRAIL: Lick Fork Lake Trail, Shirley Miller Wildflower
HABITAT: Bottom lands of oak-hickery forest.(Piedmont Forest); near creek wetlands
ELEVATION: 95 meters (310 feet); 425 meters (1,390 feet)
BLOOM TIME: 18-MAR, 24-MAR