White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)

Family: Trilliaceae | Edibility: Edible (1/5)

Bloom Color: Pink, White. Main Bloom Time: Late spring, Mid spring. Form: Upright or erect.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Leaves

Harvest Seasons: Spring, Early Summer

Flavor & Culinary Uses

Young leaves - cooked and used like spinach. A famine food, it is only used when all else fails. — Young leaves - cooked and used like spinach.; A famine food, it is only used when all else fails.

Habitat & North American Range

Rich woods and thickets, usually on limestone. Rich deciduous or mixed coniferous-deciduous upland woods, floodplains, roadsides at elevations of 20 - 700 metres. (Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8, Zone 9)