Saturday, April 14, 2012

Trillium

 Trillium goes by many names, Wake Robin is one, and a name more fitting is  Stinking Benjamin. Trillium was named by Linnaeus. He named it to shed light on the plants three leaves, three petals,  three sepals, three celled ovaries, and three ribbed berries. The other name, Stinking Benjamin, comes from the fact that it does stink. Some call it the Carrion Flower because it smells like rotting meat. It doesn't attract a lot of insects, but it does attract the Green Fly, a garbage eating fly.

Where I found it: In the woods by a river.
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