198 PINK TO MAGENTA 



WAKE ROBIN: Purple Trillium: Ill-scented 



Wake Robin: Birthroot. Trillium erectum. 



Lily Family. Apr. June. 



Plant 8-16 inches high, found in rich woods. 



Eastern Quebec south to North Carolina, west 



to Minnesota and Missouri. 



FLOWERS Brown-purple, dull pink, white or 

 greenish, divisions 3, on short stalk 

 from junction of leaves. 

 LEAVES Broad, 3 in a whorl. 



SESSILE-FLOWERED WAKE ROBIN: Stem- 

 less Trillium. T. sessile. 

 Flowers stemless, dark purplish or greenish. 

 T. recurvatum. Outer divisions of flower 

 reflexed; colored divisions narrowed at the 

 base; leaves narrowed into a stem. 



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