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Sweet Betsy trillium

Sweet fancy Moses! It's a sweet Betsy trillium, blooming in early spring!

 

Ira B. Melton Park

DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.

22 March 2024.

 

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▶ "Trillium cuneatum —commonly known as little sweet betsy, whip-poor-will flower, large toadshade, purple toadshade, and bloody butcher— is a species of flowering trillium (in the butterwort or Melanthiaceae family), native to the southeastern United States.

 

Trillium cuneatum has three broad, mottled leaves surrounding a sessile [blossom without a stalk], banana-scented flower. The petals are erect and either maroon, bronze, green, or yellow in color, flowering from early March to late April. It is the largest of the eastern sessile-flowered trilliums."

Wikipedia.

 

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▶ "Sweet fancy Moses" is a quotable quote (one of many) from the 1990s television sitcom, Seinfeld.

 

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Taken on March 22, 2024