Snow Trillium
Trillium grandiflorum (MELANTHIACEAE, formerly LILIACEAE)
Planting and Growing Snow Trillium
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow snow trillium in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of snow trillium
- Season of bloom and planting time for snow trillium
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for snow trillium
- When, how deep, and where to plant snow trillium
- How to plant snow trillium
- Watering, fertilizing, care and pests or diseases of snow trillium
- Landscape and indoor uses of snow trillium
- Comments about snow trillium and its features
Growing Snow Trillium
Spring rhizome. Deciduous. Stands 12–18 in. (30–45 cm) tall. Oval or heart-shaped, smooth, deep green, veined leaves, to 6 in. (15 cm) long, in distinctive triads on a single stem.
See also wake-robin, Trillium species.
Snow Trillium Planting and Care Guide
Flowers
Spring. White becoming rose or purple. Single or double, 3-part flowers, 2–3 in. (50–75 mm) wide.
Best Climates
U.S.D.A. Plant Hardiness Zones 5–9.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained humus. Fertility: Rich. 6.5–7.0 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Spring in partial shade. Space 5 in. (13 cm) apart, 4 in. (10 cm) deep.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep evenly moist. Fertilize annually in spring with acidic fertilizer, as for azalea, camellia, or rhododendron. Mulch. Propagate by division, seed.
Lifting and Storing
In-ground. Protect from freeze-thaw cycles.
About This Species
Good choice for beds, borders, ground covers in natural, rock, shade, woodland gardens. Good for massed plantings with ferns. Disease and pest resistant.