Jennifer Murphy's photos with the keyword: trillium

Spring colors in the garden...how I love seeing it come to life!

Cleaning out my gardens this weekend and came across this little beauty. I immediately recognized it as a trillium, but don't remember planting it...and it's not a native species, so...???

The trillium I found the other day suffered a setback ~ shortly after I'd found it, I noticed one of the leaves had withered to nothing. I was so bummed! I really wanted to see the bloom, because it's different from my other trilliums in that it sprouts directly from the center of the three leaves, rather than on a long stem like the ones in my other garden and the wild variety that grow on the property. I went out to check to see if *maybe* the little plant was blooming despite its injury, and bless my soul! Wasn't there another trillium of the same species not three inches away...in bloom!

In my yard is a patch of blood red wild trillium. This one has only red veins in the petals; I have a white trillium and it's not the same. Is this a different trillium, or a - dare I say it - mutant?

You can see the red trillium in the background.