Beautiful Trilliums, and some unidentified flowers from Voyager: “Today I actually found two red Trilliums. They are quite rare and only last a day or two. The white trilliums are up, but not open yet. They last much longer, generally about two weeks. We also have a variegated green and white Trillium that is unique to our woods. The colour variation is actually due to a virus that otherwise doesn’t harm the plant.” Beautiful flowers, and a very interesting plant, too. Click for full size!
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Bloodroot & yellow trout lilies, at a guess.
It’s interesting, all the flowers that end up with a fish in the name. An odd association. :D
On seeing just the title, I at first wondered if this was about Trillium Brewery.
I cannot recall ever knowingly tasting any of their beers, but they seem to have a good reputation. And I don’t recall ever hearing of this plant / flower before either.
It’s because the leaves look like troutskins. I think. That’s the association I make. :)
Thank you for these photos, voyager. Sort of came at an inopportunely emotional point in the day and now I’m terribly homesick (this after insisting to someone else that no, I’m not homesick for Canada at all). :) But it’s a nice kind of homesick, I think? Anyway, I hate the universe sometimes.
Beautiful flowers! We have all of these species coming up in our area as well, although most (with the exception of the bloodroot) are not so far along as those in voyager’s photos.
We have a few bloodroot plants in the front garden, and they’ve already gone to seed! Sigh, spring, so ephemeral…
(Interesting fact: bloodroot’s roots really do bleed red!)
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How beautiful! I love the trilliums. What a colour!
Gotta get out to the hiking trail at A. W. Stanley & see how these are doing around here.
Thank you rq. I think this time of year is beautiful here. I will send a few more pics as spring progresses with the hope that it helps with the homesickness and doesn’t make it worse.
rejiquar, thanks for the info. Trillium Woods, where I walk, is actually a wildflower sanctuary, but they don’t supply any info about what flowers are actually there.
Tricia McMilliums!
The second is my fave.
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I’m starting to get the feeling that we used to be neighbours.
Because there’s a Trillium Woods where I lived in Canada, but I have no actual idea about how common that name is for municipal parks.
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Well, I know of one such park, not far from Woodstock, Ont. It’s just south of the 401, so I used to notice it as I drove past on my way to Point Pelee. Unfortunately, I was always in such a rush, in those days, that I never stopped there (dumb). I’ve still never been in it.
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On the scale of Canada, I think that counts as neighbours. :D
rq @12.
True, that.