| Scientific Name: | Trillium ovatum |
| Common Name: | western wakerobin, western trillium |
| Family Name: | Melanthiaceae |
| Origin: | B.C. east of Cascades, B.C. west of Cascades, U.S. - northwest, U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
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| Leaves: | Simple, Whorled, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Ovate, Rhomboidal, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Purple, Pink, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Dark-red, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves in a whorl of 3 on top of a smooth, unbranched, green stem, mostly ovate-rhomboid, (5-)7-12(-18)cm long, often as wide, unstalked or with short petioles, margins entire, dies back in summer; flowers solitary with three ovate or egg-shaped petals, white turning pale pink to purple with age, sometimes pinkish initially, each 1.5-7cm long x 1-4cm wide, 3 green leaf-like sepals; capsules berry-like, ovate, green to yellowish. <a href ='http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Trillium%20ovatum' target='_blank'>E-Flora BC</a> | |