Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Trillium in Morton Grove

Late April and early May is trillium time in the Midwest. I found this one, specifically a Large-flowered Trillium, in Morton Grove's Linne Woods, named for Carl Linné, also known as Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish scientist who developed the Latinized classification system for naming living organisms.

This post works well on a couple of levels. Trilliums have three petal blooms, with three leaf-like bracts below it. "Tri" is Latin for three. Get it?

Also, the flower was named by none other than Linnaeus.

Oh...please don't pick the flowers! Trilliums are often killed by people plucking blooms from its stalk, and in some states it is illegal to pick trilliums.

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