Painted Trillium

Title

Painted Trillium

Artist

Elizabeth Dow

Medium

Photograph - Photographs

Description

While hiking up to Chimney Pond in Baxter State Park, we saw a few of these delicate flowers. This is a Painted Trillium. It reminds me a bit of a lily and an Iris. I just loved finding this delicate flower in and among large boulders and running water.

From USDA forest service: http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/trillium_undulatum.shtml:

"Painted trillium is an herbaceous, long-lived, woodland, perennial wildflower with a broad distribution across New England, New York and Pennsylvania thence south in a narrow band in the Appalachian Mountains from West Virginia and Virginia to the high mountains of Georgia; and in Canada from Ontario, Quebec and the maritime provinces to Nova Scotia."

"Trillium, from the Latin tri refers to the flower parts occurring in threes; and llium from the Latin liliaceous refers to the funnel-shaped flower; and flexipes, from the Latin undulatum (i.e., wavy) refers to the petals� wavy margins."

"Trillium undulatum has a short, thick rhizome from which a sheath (highly modified leaf called a cataphyll) enclosed scape (stalk of the inflorescence) emerges from the ground to10 to 45 cm tall. It has a single, terminal flower. Leaves (actually bracts) are three, dark green infused with maroon, petiolate, lanceolate, acuminate, 5 to 17 cm long and 4 to 12 cm wide. The flower is pedicellate, with the pedicel ascending to erect. Sepals are three, dark red to dark maroon green, spreading, 1.5 to 4 cm long, and 0.5 to 1.0 cm wide. Petals are three, wavy-margined, white with a central red to reddish purple splotch at the base, lanceolate to obovate, acuminate, 1.4 to 1.8 cm long. Fruit is a scarlet, three-angled berry, 1 to 2 cm long."

"Trillium undulatum flowers from early to late spring (dependent on latitude and/or elevation). The species occurs in mesic, northern hardwoods, mixed conifer-hardwood forests, to pinewoods and high-elevation red spruce forests in the central Appalachian Mountains in very acidic humus-rich soils."

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