Taxon: Trillium erectum L.

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Common names:

• bethroot   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• birthroot   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• purple trillium   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• red benjamin   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• stinking benjamin   (Source: Harv Pap Bot 9:102.) – English
  
• wakerobin   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• purpurtreblad   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F; Zander ed14)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, Georgia [n.], Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce.
• Britton, N. L. & A. Brown. 1952. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, ed. 3.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Zomlefer, W. B. 1996. The Trilliaceae in the southeastern United States. Harvard Pap. Bot. 9:102.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Trillium erectum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Trillium erectum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Trillium erectum.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Trillium rhomboideum Michx.
  

Check other web resources for Trillium erectum L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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