purple trillium

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purple 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, Trillium erectum, red trillium

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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Woodland flowers - purple trillium, trout lily, marsh marigold and others - bloomed in profusion.

Wary bird eludes watchers; Woodpecker's numbers increase

I have seen wounds on them like purple trillium forced through the skin.

Flower Bomb

With the color and odor of rotting meat, purple trillium attracts flies as pollinators early in the spring before bees are commonly about.