Large-flowered Trillium , Trillium grandiflorum, can be a rare site in the spring forest and is known for its edible and medicinal properties. The leaves taste like raw sunflower seeds. It has been used medicinally for rheumatism, earache, birth control, as a pain killer, for headaches and as a fishing item.

Large Flowered Trillium Sources:

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Newcomb, Lawrence. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977. Print. pg. 124-125

Peterson, Lee Allen. The Peterson Field Guide Series; A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants; Eastern and Central North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Print. pg. 24-25, 96-97

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