Coast Trillium vs gray wolf
Trillium ovatum compared with Canis lupus
Key Differences
- Coast Trillium is Least Concern while gray wolf is Critically Endangered.
Taxonomic Classification
| Rank | Coast Trillium | gray wolf |
|---|---|---|
| Kingdom | Plantae (植物) | Animalia (动物界) |
| Phylum | Magnoliophyta (木兰植物门) | Chordata (脊索动物门) |
| Class | Liliopsida (百合纲) | Mammalia (哺乳動物) |
| Order | Liliales (百合目) | Carnivora (食肉目) |
| Family | Melanthiaceae | Canidae (Dogs & Wolves) |
| Genus | Trillium | Canis (Dogs & Wolves) |
| Species | Trillium ovatum | Canis lupus |
Conservation Status
Coast Trillium
LC — Least Concerngray wolf
CR — Critically EndangeredPopulation: ~300.0K
Trend: Stable →
Physical Characteristics
| Attribute | Coast Trillium | gray wolf |
|---|---|---|
| Diet | — | Carnivore |
| Average Lifespan | — | 13 years |
| Average Length | — | 1.6 m |
| Average Weight | — | 45.0 kg |
Habitat & Geographic Range
Coast Trillium
Typically found in grasslands, wetlands, forests, and cultivated landscapes.
Found in United States.
gray wolf
Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, deserts and xeric shrublands, and tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, among 13 distinct biome types. Populations are also found in montane and highland environments at higher elevations.
Widely distributed across Africa (Seychelles), Asia (Japan), Europe (5 countries), North America (7 countries), Oceania and the Pacific (Marshall Islands, Vanuatu), and South America (5 countries). Currently classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.
Coast Trillium
Coast trillium (Trillium ovatum) is a spring-flowering perennial herb in the family Melanthiaceae, native to moist, shaded forests of western North America from British Columbia and Alberta south through the Pacific states to central California and east to Montana and Idaho. It grows in mixed conifer and deciduous forest understories, redwood forest, riparian woodland, and coastal range foothills, typically in deep, humus-rich, well-drained soils. Like all trilliums, it produces a whorl of three broad leaves, a single three-petalled flower that opens white and turns pink to deep rose with age, and takes many years to reach flowering maturity from seed. Seeds are dispersed by ants (myrmecochory) attracted to the oil-rich elaiosome attached to each seed. Coast trillium is assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN, though it is a legally protected plant in some US states due to its slow reproductive rate making populations sensitive to disturbance. Illegal collection from the wild for horticulture remains a concern. It is one of the most beloved wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest and is widely cultivated in woodland gardens.
gray wolf
灰狼是分布最广的野生犬科动物,分布范围从北美横跨欧亚大陆,栖息于冻原、森林和草原等多种生境。高度社会化的动物,以由占优势的繁殖对领导的家族群体生活。作为关键捕食者,狼调节猎物种群并深刻影响生态系统结构,黄石公园的重引入项目对此有充分证明。曾遭到严重迫害,但目前许多地区的种群正在恢复。
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