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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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