[Wikipedia] taxonomy: In 1856, John Torrey described Trillium sessile var. angustipetalum based on a specimen collected by John Milton Bigelow two years earlier in California. In 1975, John Daniel Freeman described the species Trillium angustipetalum based on Torrey's variety. The epithet angustipetalum means "narrow-petaled". (link added by Mary Ann Machi)
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