White or Large-Flowered Trillium

Trillium grandiflorum
Lily Family

Perhaps the best known trillium, it is also the most variable with the flower petals ranging from roundish to more narrow and wavy. May also tend towards pink. Blooms April-May.

this photo from a sunny hillside in Polk County--03.28.01

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