Trillium sp nov freemanii Ruby Falls coll A1NC 056 Blue Flowering Plants pine cone-like flowers emerge from

pine cone-like flowers emerge from the base in late summer

(aka: Matteuccia 'Fanfare') Matteuccia 'The King' is an amazing selection of ostrich fern

If you grow this

it's visible from 50' away

Trillium sp nov freemanii Ruby Falls coll A1NC 056 Blue Flowering Plants pine cone-like flowers emerge fromWe sure opened a can of worms when we discovered what initially seemed to be a disjunct population of Trillium ludovicianum in Hamilton County, Tennessee in 1998, growing alongside Trillium cuneatum. As we studied them in the wild, we found them to be earlier flowering, much taller (14" vs. 10") and with much longer and more blunt tipped petals than T. cuneatum. Publication of this as a new species was delayed when DNA testing showed several new