Trillium pusillum Michaux var. monticulum Bodkin & Reveal. Common name: Appalachian Least Trillium. Habitat: Dry to dry-mesic forests and woodlands, moist forests along small mountain streams. Distribution: Endemic to nw. VA, e. WV, and w. MD.
Origin/Endemic status: Endemic
Taxonomy Comments: Var. monticulum Bodkin & Reveal has been controversial; see Cabe (1995) and Cabe & Werth (1995) for additional discussion of variation within T. pusillum in Virginia and elsewhere. The epithet was spelled "monticulum", and is not 'correctable' to "monticola"; "the substantive suffix '-culum' is used as a diminutive with third declension nouns like 'mons', and is not the same as the suffix '-cola' " (M. Schori, pers.comm., 2002).
Other Comments: Petals white to pink.
Synonymy ⓘ: = K4, NS, Bodkin & Reveal (1982); = Trillium monticola, in prep., sp. nov.; = Trillium pusillum Michx. var. monticola Bodkin & Reveal — Case & Case (1997), orthographic variant; < Trillium pusillum Michx. — S, S13, Patrick (1986), Timmerman-Erskine, Dute, & Boyd (2002); < Trillium pusillum Michx. var. pusillum — FNA26; < Trillium pusillum Michx. var. virginianum Fernald — C, POWO, Va. Basionym: Trillium pusillum Michx. var. monticulum Bodkin & Reveal 1982
Links to other floras: < Trillium pusillum var. pusillum - FNA26
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
Heliophily ⓘ: 2
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