Trillium simile, the jeweled wakerobin,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae.
Trillium simile is a spring-flowering perennial plant.
[4] Trillium simile is endemic to the southeastern United States.
It occurs in the southern Appalachian Mountains in the U.S. states of Tennessee, Georgia, North, and South Carolina.
[5] It prefers moist humus-rich soils at the edges of Rhododendron thickets in mature forests.