6. TRILLIUM RECURVATUM Beck, Am. Journ. Sci. ii : 178. 1826. Trillium Nutt. Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. (If.) 5: 154. 1837.
Perennial by a short horizontal rootstock, light green, gla brous. Stems solitary, or several together, 1-4 dm. tall, smooth, usually slender ; leaves petioled, the blades ovate-lanceolate, oval or suborbicular, obtuse or acute, 5-9 cm. long, rounded or sub-cor date at the base or rarely attenuate, often mottled ; petioles winged, several times shorter than the blades ; flowers sessile, pur ple ; sepals lanceolate, 2-3 cm. long, acute, finally deflexed ; petals
clawed, the blades ovate, obovate or elliptic, usually acute, about twice longer than the claws ; stamens hardly 34 as long as the petals; filaments about or as long as the more or less in curved anthers ; berry not seen.
In woods, Ohio to Minnesota, south to Mississippi and Arkan as. April and May.