RHH's photos with the keyword: trillium

The Large-flowered Trillium is one of the earliest wildflowers to bloom in Michigan. We photographed them in several place, this in Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary where they carpeted the ground (see insets).

These are Large-flowered Trilliums at Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary in southern Michigan. They grew there by the thousands in a mixed hardwood forest.

These Trillium grandiflorum were photographed at Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary in southern Michigan. They carpeted the ground in the wetter area of the sanctuary, often growing with Skunk Cabbage.

These large-flowered Trilliums, Trillium grandiflorum, were in bloom in every park we visited in Michigan. We sometimes saw them covering the ground by the thousands. It would be hard to distinguish from our Western Trillium, Trillium ovatum, but seemed to have wider flower segments and leaves. We are home again - arrived home about 8:00 last night. Spent four days driving home, two of them in Yellowstone National Park which had just opened. Did about 7,000 miles in all driving to Michigan and back and are very happy to be home. Now it's time to catch up everything that was neglected while we were away.

These Large-flowered Trilliums were at the peak of their bloom season when we were in Michigan recently. We found them, sometimes covering the forest floor, in every park we visited there.

This is the Large-flowered Trillium, very similar to our Western Trillium but with larger flower segments and droopier flowers, and found only in eastern North America.

Another photo of the Western Trillium, Trillium ovatum, taken on Padden Ridge in Lake Padden Park.

The Western Trillium is common but always a welcome sign of spring. This example was photographed in Lake Padden Park near Bellingham, Washington, while on a spring hike there with my wife and youngest son.

As its common name, Wakerobin, indicates, this is a spring wildflower at lower elevations, but at Lake Serene in late July it was just emerging and flowering and it was nice to see it in mid-summer, especially when most of the wildflowers were already finished.

Western Trillium or Trillium ovatum blooms in the early spring. This plant was photographed on Sumas Mountain, Whatcom County, Washington.

This Trillium is very rare and found in only a few sites in Washington. These were growing near Yelm, Washington, in one location.

This is the Western Trillium, Trillium ovatum, photographed in the Leavenworth, Washington, area, but near the end of its season. The flowers are white but take on these red-purple tones as they begin to fade, turning completely purple just before falling off. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/05/orchid-hunting-in-leavenworth-area.html

Several weeks ago we were on an excursion with the Washington Native Orchid Society to see the Fairy Slippers and a very rare Trillium, shown in this photo, that grows in only a few locations in our state, as well as other native wildflowers. The spider is Misumena vatia. Because the area, which also includes a rare hanging fen, is very sensitive and protected, we not only had to get permission to visit, but had to sign a promise that we would not disclose any location information, so all I can say is that this was in Thurston County. There are many more photos of the area and its flora and fauna at this link: ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/06/thurston-co...

Photographed on a hike with my wife and my brother along the Thunder Creek Trail in the North Cascades. These flowers are just beginning to fade, evidenced by the purplish color in the center of the flower which turns completely pink or rose-red as it ages. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.ca/2012/06/thunder-cree...

In Explore May 4, 2013, #449. Besides some Salmonberry flowers and some Skunk Cabbage, the only wildflowers we saw on our hike to Fragrance Lake were these Trilliums, Trillium ovatum, and we did not see very many of them. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-wet-walk-...