Native to Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
United States, North Carolina, Clay
35.084167, -83.616667
Location Remarks
West of the city of Franklin and E of the town of Shooting Creek; 2.25 km (1.4 miles) N of U.S. route 64 on Buck Creek Road; W side of Buck Creek. 943 m elev.
Collectors
Christopher Davidson, David E. Boufford, Sharon R. Christoph, Tomomi Masaki
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Liliales
Family
Melanthiaceae
Genus
Trillium
Specific Epithet
vaseyi
Authorship
Harb.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 1.3
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
0.2
Global rank
#213,840 of 335,497
Top 64%
Extinction probability
13%