Look what I found on the way to the mailbox!From Wikipedia:
Trillium are attractive spring wildflowers of the lily family, native to North America and East Asia. The leaves, petals, and sepals are characteristically in threes, and the single flower may be white, pink, dark red, yellow, or green. The plants have a perennial rootstock that was used medicinally by both Native Americans and early colonists.
While trillium flowers are very attractive, they should never be picked, since the three leaves below the flower are the plant's only food source and a picked trillium may die or take many years to recover. For this reason in many areas, e.g. British Columbia, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Washington, it is illegal to pick trilliums. While popular belief exists that it is illegal to pick trilliums in Ontario, no such law actually exists.
Trillium is one of the few flowers whose seeds are spread by ants and mice. Some trilliums have a flower which is bent downward, below the leaves.
