Apr 11, 2014 · Western White Trillium (4-petal form) Occasionally you’ll find trilliums with four petals and four leaves. This one was growing above the ditch along Mt. Baker Highway headed to the Mt. Baker Ski Area. It’s the only time I’ve seen a “quadrillium.”

Jun 7, 2015 · Here is a picture of a four-petalled White Trillium taken at our cottage on Paudash Lake. It is the only one I have ever seen. How rare are they? Audrey Moore. Note: These trilliums are quite rare. It is only the second one I’ve heard of in Peterborough County.

Trilliums (Trillium spp.) are unusual flowers that grow in many areas of North America. These lovely plants have three petals that can be narrow or wide, usually ending in a point. Pedicellate trilliums have a small stalk above the stem; sessile trilliums don’t have these pedicels and instead have the flower and sepals directly on the stem.

Apr 20, 2014 · At Tryon Creek State Natural Area you can see many of Mother Nature’s mistakes. Everyone knows, for example, that trilliums (Trillium ovatum) have three petals, like the picture below. That’s why they’re called trilliums; the “tri” stands for “three.”

I have also seen an unusual trillium with four leaves. Perhaps it’s the four leaf clover of the Iris blossom!” Here's a look at a "normal" Douglas Iris, taken by Craig Tooley.

Jun 10, 2016 · There's a small tree or large woody shrub in our garden with fragrant flowers appearing in June in Oregon. Although four-petaled and white, they seem different from the dogwoods we have. The petals seem to be true petals and not sepals, and they bud differently.

Petals erect basally, flaring and recurving above middle, margins undulate-wavy, overlapping basally, rolled, forming tube that conceals ovary when viewed from above, obovate to lanceolate, rarely suborbicular, 4–7.5 × 2–4 cm, white or rarely pink, aging to pink-purple; e North America.

ovatum has wide sessile leaves, upright flowers with petals 1/2–2 3/4 in. long; grows from coast to 5000 ft. Rarity: Common; Flowering Time: Early Spring; Life Cycle: Perennial; Height: 4--18 inches; Habitat: West-Side Forest, Coastal, East-Side Forest; Found In: Crater Lake Np, Siskiyous, Wallowas, N Cascades Np, Olympic Np, Mt. Rainier Np ...

Trilliums are herbaceous perennial wildflowers in the trillium family (Melanthiaceae). In North Carolina, they are found in the mountains with a few in the coastal and Piedmont areas.

There are quite a few green stripe trillium in the wooded areas around the Forest Hill Apartment complex in London Ontario. I have found 2 mutant varieties – an almost all green one with 4 petals and a completely double one – 2 sets of three petals – absolutely stunning!