trillium

• This year the trillium was found blooming, on a northeastern slope, March 24. —  Some Spring Days in Iowa
• A very pretty flower which we began to meet with well up on the mountain-side was the painted trillium, the petals white, veined with pink The low, stunted growth of spruce and fir which clothes the top of Slide has been cut away over a small space on the highest point, laying open the view on nearly all sides. —  In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
• "There aren't any red ones excepting the red trillium, and that's so dark it isn't really red." —  Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3)
• The strong carrion-like odour of the purple trillium is attractive to flies and beetles, while bees and butterflies find the fragrance of the white trillium more to their liking. —  Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
• Some brought handfuls of columbine from rocky nooks, and others the purple trillium, that is near of kin to Burroughs's white —  Nature's Serial Story

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