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Trillium is also known as wake-robin, probably because many species bloom around the time robins return in the spring.
According to Jack Sanders (The Secrets of Wildflowers), the name "trillium" describes "the 'threeness' of the plant, which has three leaves, flowers with three petals, three sepals, three-celled ovaries, and berries with three ribs."
In spite of this particular kind being called Prairie Trillium, I haven't found it anywhere but deep in the woods.
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