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(25-Apr-98; Shindagin by road; click to enlarge)
Nodding Trillium
White Trillium
Painted Trillium
(May-96; 6-Mile Gorge, South Hill Recreation Way, Hammond Hill)
Family: Lilly
Season: early spring
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(25-Apr-98; Shindagin by road; click to enlarge)
Nodding Trillium
White Trillium
Painted Trillium
(May-96; 6-Mile Gorge, South Hill Recreation Way, Hammond Hill)
A common mid-spring flower prefering rich woodlands. Several varities at different times. Bloom for extended period. A simple stalk and three, smooth, broad lance-shaped, leaves (with no marginal vein) with a single three-petal flower. Probably the most well-known Spring flower. Elegant flowers dotting swaths of woodland.
The Red Trillium seems to bloom the earliest, often blooming around the time Hepatica blooms.
The White Trillium are by-far the most common, often covering swaths of under-story woodland. Blooming peaks the "middle of Spring". Usual the largest of the various Trillium and prolific. The flowers fade pinkish.
The Nodding Trillium is very similar to the Red Trillium - but with the white-cream, nodding blooms and thick stamens.
Painted Trillium are locally "somewhat rare".