Trillium foetidissimum Baton Rouge 10b white spider-like flowers

white spider-like flowers

The clumps are topped with 18" scapes of lavender flowers in mid-July

just prior to the emerging foliage

hummingbird-attracting clumps of Salvia 'Diane' are topped with small purple flowers

allowing us to make it available

Trillium foetidissimum Baton Rouge 10b white spider-like flowersDespite being endemic to only a small region of beech forests and floodplains on both the Louisiana and Mississippi sides of the Mississippi River, Trillium foetidissimum is just as hardy in Minnesota. This amazing sessile trillium sprouts a 10" stalk in early spring topped with three olive green leaves dramatically highlighted with dark blotches. Atop the leaves are the narrow, maroon red petals. Trillium foetidissimum is extremely easy to grow in a