RE purple-leafed trillium

**K* C* <k*@gmail.com>**

Take a look at http://www.edgewoodgardens.net/articles/trillium.html
 where this appears

*Trillium pusillum ***

***T. pusillum *is a beautiful species which tends to flower rather early
for a pedicellate trillium.  Unfortunately it is a rather confused little
fellow, or at least it has managed to confuse a large number of botanists.
It occurs in several widely disjunct populations west from eastern Maryland
to the Ozarks of Missouri, south to western Texas and then back east
through Alabama and Georgia into S Carolina.  There are currently 6 or 7
published varieties, but the distinctions between many are blurred and this
is not the place to go into a discussion of them.  Suffice to say it is
always very charming, dwarf (3” – 12”) and has an upwards facing white
flower.  The flower often has ruffled margins and, in the manner of *Trillium
grandiflorum, *fades to rose pink as it ages.  The foliage of some forms is
almost purple in color until it matures to a deeper green.  In the wild it
is frequently found in seasonally boggy or even swampy areas, but doesn't
require such conditions in cultivation.
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