Wildflowers Identified: Drooping or Gleason's Trillium
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Drooping or Gleason's Trillium has these characteristics:
- 3 petals
- single flower on stem
- 5/8 to 1 inch flower width
- 1 to 2 inches flower width
- whitish flower color
- blooms in May
- plant height one foot or less
- plant height one foot to two feet
- leaf petiole present (has a leafstalk)
- leaf petiole absent (has no leafstalk)
- arrangement of leaves on stem is whorled (three or more from a point)
- smooth leaf edges
- branched leaf veins
- simple leaves about as long as wide
- simple leaves about 1 1/2 to 5 times as long as wide
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Eric Haines,
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