If you know anything at all about spring wildflowers, you’ve probably heard of Trillium. These flowers, as their name suggests, have 3 leaves and 3 petals in their flowers. They are common in many places and really spectacular when the entire hillsides are covered in various species of trillium. Have you seen this?
Let’s see if you know your Trilliums! Here are 5 different species. Can you identify them all?
Check back next weekend to learn the correct answers. And don’t forget to use the comment box below to enter your guess–this week is admittedly a hard one, with 5 different ones to know so I will enter your name for any you get right–so up to 5 times! All the correct answers will be entered in a drawing to win a free prize on the first day of summer. Click here for the answer.
The trillium are some of my favorite spring wildflowers.
1. Painted Trillium
2. Large Flowered Trillium
3. Toadshade Trillium
4. Yellow (Toadshade) Trillium
5. Wake Robin Trillium
Hey Helen, Thanks for guessing! That’s a lot of flowers to know. Good job with your guesses–check back on Saturday to see if you were right!
Trillium 1: Painted Trillium
Trillium 2: Large Flowered trillium
Trillium 3: Relect trillium?
Trillium 4: Pale Yellow
Trillium 5: Wake Robin
You can see these all in one place (except for #3) at the trail across from Florence Nature Preserve! I haven’t been there yet this Spring, but I would think they might be blooming now.
Hey Renee, yes you can often see all of these blooming in the same place. They are spectacular when the whole hillside is covered in it! Isn’t spring wonderful? Thanks for guessing!
#1 Painted Trillium
#2 Large Flowered Trillium
#3 Sweet Betsy Trillium
#4 Yellow Trillium
#5 Red Trillium or Red Wakerobin
Barbara, thanks for your answers! Check in on Sat to see if you were right!