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Photo of the Week: Prairie Trillium

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One of the first and most plentiful Trilliums to bloom in the spring, the Prairie Trillium is often overlooked in our Michigan woods by the shear number of flowering Great White Trillium on the forest floor.

The Prairie Trillium has upright maroon blossoms without stalks, mottled green leaves, and grows to 12-18 inches tall. I’ve only seen single Prairie Trilliums in southeast Michigan, I’ve never seen them en masse.

I saw this Prairie Trillium on the trails around the University of Michigan Dearborn Environmental Interpretation Center. I love the maroon color of the flower!

Photo of the Week: Signs of Spring

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purple bell-shaped blooms rise on long slender stalks from the leaf-covered ground.
The Lenten Rose is an early sign of spring

With the extreme changes in weather we’ve had in southeast Michigan—from wind chills below zero followed by temperatures in the high-forties, all in the same week—you wonder if spring is ever going to arrive.

But when you finally see the beautiful late-winter Lenten Rose (Helleborus orientalis) in bloom in the garden, you know spring is on its way.

For my readers in the northern hemisphere, what signs of spring have you seen in your area?

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