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Trillium flowers

Jill Raggett

Sharing a love for the humus-rich soils of Appalachia’s deciduous forests, red trillium (Trillium erectum) is often found growing with large-flowered trillium on well-drained slopes and ravines.  Commonly referred to as wake-robin and birthroot, the perennial herb is easily distinguished by its broad, diamond-shaped bracts, curvaceous crimson flowers, and six large stamens surrounding a stigma with three re-curved lobes.  While the flower of large-flowered trillium is odorless, that of red trillium produces the foul-smelling stench of rotting flesh, which draws its primary pollinator: carrion flies.  Traditional medicine practitioners used the plant to treat gangrene.  As with large-flowered trillium, the plant’s beautiful foliage and flowers have earned an award of garden merit from the Royal Horticulture Society.

yay! first trillium bloom of the year after a nice heavy rain

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