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Photographer: Ben Russell
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Family Liliaceae
Trillium cernuum L.
nodding trillium, whip-poor-will flower
Trillium: Latin tres for three and lilium for lily
cernuum: drooping, nodding
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 8"-16" tall forb |
| Flower: | white, 3-parted, 1 1/2" wide, green sepals and lance-like petals about equal in length, pinkish anthers not more than 1/4" long; solitary usually nodding below the leaves on 1/2"-2" long stalk; blooms May-June |
| Fruit: | dark red, oval berry, up to 1 1/8" wide |
| Leaf: | Widely oval with a pointed tip in 1 whorl of 3 leaves at the top of the stem |
| Habitat: | wet to moderate moisture; woods, forests |
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