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| THREE RECURVED WHITE PETALS AND THREE RECURVED GREEN SEPALS... |
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| FLOWER NODDING, MOSTLY HIDDEN... |
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| ...BY A WHORL OF THREE TERMINAL LEAVES |
Daughter-in-law Leslie and granddaughter Allison arrived in time for dinner yesterday evening. They were exhausted after being up and traveling since four AM. We are all elated to have them with us for a few days; Buddy can hardly contain himself.
A nodding trillium, Trillium cernuum, in the Lily Family, is blooming in the front yard. It must be a remnant, since I don't remember planting it. This is a spring ephemeral wildflower native to coniferous and mixed woods of eastern Canada and the northeastern US and Great Lakes states. Its' habitat is the rich soil of wet to moderate-moisture woods. This plant may not be particularly obvious in bloom as the flower is borne under the whorl of the three oval leaves.
The most obvious trillium in flower is T. grandiflorum, the large, erect flowers of which can turn the forest floor white; but that is a species not usually found this far north in Wisconsin. There are six species of trillium in Wisconsin, four white-flowered, two red-flowered.
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