Huge Trillium stand

[Rick]

My wife is taking care of our neighbors place while out on vacation. I went along to help, and going up the drive I saw all these little white stars on the side of the hill.



I got closer and saw a huge stand of white (or bent) trillium.



The stand is about 175 feet long, and extends up the hill about as high as a two story building.
Besides the white trillium there is celendine poppy, may apple, false solomons seal, jack in the pulpit, and tons of other less descript species.

 

[Rick]

Here's a closeup of the white trillium


I climbed up to this outcrop about 50 ft up the hill because I saw a small stand of something else that looked interesting.

It looks like a flowered out patch of trout lilly. Although no flowers, there are lots of seed capsules set. There was also allot more Jack in the Pulpit, and sweet betsy trillium up here. I think the Jack's in this stand compete with Paph anitum for blackness.

 

[MoreWater]

wow ! It's really nice to see something like that.

 

[likespaphs]

neat!
thanks.

 

[nikv]

Wicked cool! :clap:

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Looks like a lovely secret garden. How cool! :clap:

 

[biothanasis]

Great photos!!! Thanks for sharing....

 

[goldenrose]

... so how much help were you?
:clap: :clap: That's awesome! Thanks for posting!

 

[Ron-NY]

very big stand of grandiflorum!

 

[Rick]

very big stand of grandiflorum!

I think this one might actually be flexipes rather than grandiflorum.

The flower stems are bent to face the flower forward rather than upward, the anthers are creamy rather than yellow, and the range for grandiflorum is bit more east of here. Flexipes also likes the limestone around here.

 

[SlipperFan]

Very lovely. You are a bit ahead of us, but after the last couple of warm days, things are beginning to pop.

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Nothing like those southern trillium stands. Thanks for the look Rick.