How to Use trillium in a Sentence

trillium

noun
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  • Trillium and Timothy lakes on Mount Hood are on this week's list.
    — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017
  • Creamy Western trillium offer contrast to the fifty shades of green.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
  • This is Trillium ovatum, our native trillium with a flower that is borne on a stalk rather than right against the leaves.
    — oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2022
  • The scientists fan out across the open, sunny forest abloom with spring wildflowers such as jack-in-the-pulpit and red trillium.
    — National Geographic, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Rhododendrons, trilliums and other woodland plants line the walkway through the fir grove.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 9 May 2018
  • After the snow melts away from the mountains, passengers can spot trout lilies, purple spring beauties, and red trillium.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Make sure to think about color early in the season, with early-blooming species like hellebore and trillium.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2020
  • Also look for trillium, wild geranium, jack-in-the-pulpit and yellow trout lily.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
  • This spring, make sure to stop by the Trillium Trail, where beautiful trillium flowers bloom.
    — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Everybody loves trillium, and there are many different kinds of it.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Whole books have been written about trillium, the distinctive ephemeral beloved for its tripartite leaves and blooms.
    — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • In both the field and the lab, his student Chelsea Miller presented ants with seeds from various trillium species and found the ants were quick to pick up some species’ seeds while leaving others to rot, Miller told the meeting.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Visitors might identify a trillium flower by its three petals (which might be white, pink or purple), with the bloom jutting up above three leaves.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2023
  • After a 1-mile hike through a hardwood forest filled with trilliums in the summer, visitors reach an observation platform at the top of the falls.
    — Mark Spezia, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2017
  • One area is carpeted with ramps, trillium blossoms and other wildflowers in the spring.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The wildflowers start popping in late March, but things really get going in April, when trillium and pink lady’s slippers bloom.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The reserve has a one-way, two-mile loop trail that runs through 23 different plant areas, including the early spring blooms of witch hazel, gooseberry and western trillium.
    — Cameron Walker, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Epimedium, wood anemone and trillium were also emerging.
    — Jeastman, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • More than 2 acres of gardens include vast swathes of shade-loving plants like hostas and trilliums and a liberal sprinkling of flowering woody shrubs like lilacs and rhododendrons.
    — Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
  • The forest floor was alive with bursts of wildflowers: purple wild geraniums and violet shooting stars and red trilliums.
    — Patrick M. O'Connell, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
  • Portlanders can find trillium flowers blooming at Forest Park and Tryon Creek.
    — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2021
  • There's a fern garden, and cyclamen, narcissus, erythronium and trillium bring more color to the scene.
    — Homes & Gardens Of The Northwest Staff, OregonLive.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The mottled fronds of waterleaf came next, followed by mayapples unfurling their glossy umbrellas and the extravagant white of the first trilliums.
    — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Trillium Falls Trail, measuring 2.7 miles, is a great loop hike through old-growth forest, plus a namesake waterfall and lots of moisture, which ferns and trillium flowers enjoy.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2023
  • On a precociously hot day in May, Avent takes me on a golf cart tour past fields of arums, lycoris, trilliums, crinums, epimediums, colocasias, baptisias and gingers — the botany begins to blur after a few hours under the beating Carolina sun.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Plant Delights’ trilliums are not inexpensive, their specimens ranging from $22 to $75 per plant.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 2 May 2017
  • Other spring flowers to look for include spring beauty, trillium, violets and wild geranium.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Growing under the boughs of native cottonwoods, delicate trillium and other shade-loving plants flourish in the Hidden Garden.
    — Jeanine Barone, The Know, 23 Feb. 2020
  • COVID-19 lockdowns didn’t stop early spring trillium from blooming, but the annual festival celebrating the native flower took a two-year break.
    — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The slope is retained by logs; rocks; steps; and plantings of ornamental grasses and ground covers like ferns, cyclamen, hepaticas and native trillium.
    — Valerie Easton, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017

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