In the middle of May, after a week of hot weather, it’s rare to find any trillium wildflower in bloom in our southeast Michigan woods.

That’s what happened this month when our area was hit with a heat wave of temperatures reaching the mid- to high-eighties (Farenheit).

Instead of Great White Trilliums blanketing the forest floor (and the less frequently seen Prairie Trillium), the deep pink/purple blooms of Wild Geranium began flowering.