Usage of "red trillium"

Trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth.

purple trillium
birthroot
Trillium erectum

Trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor.

toadshade
sessile trillium
Trillium sessile

Synonyms

Examples for "purple trillium"

A lovely red or purple trillium that thrives in moist woodland conditions in eastern North America. 
 Wicked plants 

Wide swaths of yellow lady slippers, wintergreen, and foul-smelling purple trillium covered the ground like a colorful rag quilt. 
 The Bone Doll's Twin 

Some brought handfuls of columbine from rocky nooks, and others the purple trillium, that is near of kin to Burroughs's white "wake-robin." 
 Nature's Serial Story 

Usage of red trillium in anglès

"There aren't any red ones excepting the red trillium, and that's so dark it isn't really red." 
 Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) 

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Meanings of red trillium in anglès