Trilliums

Anyone acquainted with the flowers of the woodland floor holds the trillium in the highest regard.  So esteemed are these interesting plants that some years ago, when American naturalists were

Trillium cernuum, the nodding trillium, is a comparatively tall sort, growing to the size of the snow trillium, but with a much smaller white flower that droops and is often

Whenever I think of trilliums, I recalled a spring day more than 20 years ago. I was traveling across Vermont and stopped at a train cross. Just as I began