WAKE ROBIN
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Trillium sessile L.
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| Cherokee County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 6-12 inches |
| Family: Liliaceae - Lily Family |
| Flowering Period: April, May |
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| Also Called: | | Toadshade, toad trillium. | | Stems: | | Erect, stout, unbranched, smooth; base reddish-purple. | | Leaves: | | Whorl of 3 leaves at top of stem, sessile; blades broadly egg-shaped, 1.6 to 3.6 inches long, 1 to 3 inches wide, net veined, inconspicuously to strongly mottled, mottling becomes obscure with age; tips often abruptly pointed. | | Inflorescences: | | Single flower, sessile, terminal. | | Flowers: | | Fragrance pungent; perianth segments 6; outer segments 3, green, spreading to ascending, broadly lanceolate, .6 to 1.2 inches long, margins entire, tips pointed; inner segments 3, brownish-purple, becoming yellowish-green with age, erect, enclosing stamens, broadly elliptical, .8 to 1.6 inch long, broadest in lower 1/2 or near middle, margins entire, tips pointed; stamens 6, about 1/2 as long as inner perianth segments; anthers and filaments reddish-purple or purplish-brown. | | Fruits: | | Berry, nearly spherical, dark greenish-purple, pulpy, not juicy; seeds several per compartment, elliptic. | | Habitat: | | Rich, moist woods; deciduous wooded slopes; low, moist ravine bottoms; stream banks; rocky and non-rocky calcareous soils. | | Distribution: | | Easternmost counties of Kansas. | | Toxicity: | | The berries, seeds, and rhizomes of trilliums are thought to be poisonous. | | Uses: | | Native Americans and pioneers applied a poultice of crushed leaves to boils, snakebites, and stings. A tea made from the plant was taken for sickness. | | Comments: | | From Latin trilix "triple" in reference to the three parts of the flowers. |
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| Wake robin |  | | 96 KB | | Cherokee County, Kansas |
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