I was talking to a person about the flower, Trillium ovatum, mentioning how it was blooming in the woodlands now, and they mentioned how it occurred in both white and purple colors.  I said that it was my impression that the flowers were white when it first bloomed, but that some turned purple after it had matured a while.  I wasn’t sure about this and thought that I would take some photos of some white Trillium, wait a few days and then see if they turned purple.  Here are the results of some of my photographs.  They do, in fact, start out a brilliant snow-white and then it seems that most turn purplish to various degrees.

Looking online, I realize that I am always discovering what everybody else knows!    Here is a place that specializes in native plants and gives tips on propagating these native flowers.  As a reminder, one should never pick or remove wild flowers in such a way that it could harm the population.  Here is an absolutely wonderful account of this flower, how it was used by the indians, and  how it cursed a young woman who picked the flower for her wedding day.

Sorry for the fact that these photographs are dribbling down into the prior entry.  I haven’t gotten the hang of placing the photographs exactly where I want them!