Yellow Trillium
Trillium luteum
Yellow trillium is a Southeastern woodland trillium with lemon-scented, upright yellow flowers over beautifully mottled leaves, a prized but slow-growing spring gem for rich shade. Young leaves make a salad green or cooked potherb, tasting somewhat like sunflower seeds — though picking them can set this slow-growing plant back for years.
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–1.5 ft
- Spacing
- 1–1.5 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- April, May
- Bloom colors
- yellow, green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- border, container
- Native states
- GA, KY, NC, SC, TN
Related native plants
More Trillium species
- Large-flowered Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)
- Western Trillium (Trillium ovatum)
- Red Trillium (Trillium erectum)
- Painted Trillium (Trillium undulatum)
- Toadshade (Trillium sessile)
- Drooping Trillium (Trillium flexipes)