White trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) may make you wait up to nine years from planting seeds to seeing the first bloom, but thanks to the plant's environmental importance and beauty, this North ...

The trillium reproduction cycle, from seed to flowering plant, takes four to seven years — a remarkably long time for herbaceous plants, Mr. Knapp said — so a lost year is costly.

There’s a beautiful woodland plant known as trillium. This time of year, it has made its seeds, but in the spring, it’s a fragrant bloomer that produces fragile petals in threes. In some parts of the ...

For a trillium to go from a seed to flowering, it may take as long as seven years. “Typically, the ones that are blooming are old,” Kemmerer said. “I’m talking 20, 30, 50 years.

The stalked flowers may stick straight up, or variously lean to one side. One of our species, Trillium catesbyi, has a flower that hangs down, like it’s hiding. It’s called “Bashful trillium.” ...

Sometimes, you can still find trillium flowers in clearcuts. But they are older than the cut, reblooming and setting seed each year, but without any of their seeds surviving.

1. Obtain them legally. You can buy nursery-raised trillium at many garden shops, through catalogs, and even on e-bay. Always ask if they are nursery-grown or wild-collected, and do not patronize ...