A. While most of the different trillium species that grow in our area bear white flowers, there are a few maroon or red-flowering types. In the wild, trilliums grow in shady woodland areas. Trillium ...

What: Trillium erectum — commonly called red or purple trillium, bethroot, waking robin or stinking benjamin — is native to the woodlands of eastern North America yet is surprisingly well adapted to ...

Looks like: Red trillium can reach heights of 8-16 inches with a single, 2-2.5 inch-wide nodding, maroon to reddish brown flower at the top of the plant. Its leaves are found in a single whorl of ...

One of spring’s most magical attractions quietly rises from the forest floor. Distinguished by a whorl of three leaves and three petals, the trillium contributes eye-catching forms and flashes of red, ...

No spring shade garden is complete, in my estimation, without trilliums and their distinctive triads of leaves, sepals and petals. Our native Indiana trilliums are easy to grow, as long as we provide ...

One of the ways I have been dealing with staying at home is getting to know my backyard better through a daily ‘Nature Minute’ where I find something in my backyard, flora or fauna (though usually ...

One of the ways I have been dealing with staying at home is getting to know my backyard better through a daily ‘Nature Minute’ where I find something in my backyard, flora or fauna (though usually ...

Over the past several springs, I had seen few trilliums, and I wondered if this was one wildflower that our overabundant deer had finally eaten into extinction. Apparently not. In late April Mike ...