Description
Virtually confined to California this handsome, robust and very strong growing species grows well in the UK and in cultivation generally, despite its limited wild range.
Slightly mottled leaves and robust, broad petalled, upright flowers of deep purple-red, which are amongst the best of the stemless species.
Frequently wrongly named, this is probably the plant that you want if you have seen “Trillium sessile” illustrated in garden magazines, as the name sessile or sessile californicum has been wrongly used for this plant in the past. It has also been mis-labelled as chloropetalum and giganteum. Amazingly it is still seen (wrongly) labelled as sessile in many Botanic Gardens.
