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Noun	1.	red trillium - trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor sessile trillium, toadshade, Trillium sessile trillium, wake-robin, wood lily - any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower
	2.	red trillium - trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth birthroot, purple trillium, Trillium erectum trillium, wake-robin, wood lily - any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower

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Sharp-lobed hepatica, jack-in-the-pulpit, wood anemone, spring beauty, toothwort, and bloodroot give way to wild geranium, blue phlox, and red trillium. Throughout the year, the trees at Coral Woods are an attractive respite for numerous songbirds, owls and woodpeckers.

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With funding provided by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), a team of ecologists from the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University is working to disentangle the effects of various threats, or stressors, that contribute to the rarity of four state-listed or vulnerable plant species in New York--beaked agrimony (Agrimonia rostellata), Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia serpentaria), reflexed sedge (Carex retroflexa) and red trillium (Trillium erectum).

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Page 7: Red Trillium Maggot-gravid flies buzz hosannas to this stinking woodland trinity.

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