Large-flowered Trillium Print
Large-flowered Trillium Print
Size
12 × 18 in overall, unframed. The plate sits on an ivory sheet with a border of about an inch, so it fits a standard ready-made frame of the same size, with or without a mat.
Printed on 189 g/m² (10.3 mil) enhanced matte paper.
Want it ready to hang? The same plate comes framed in Black or Red Oak.
Everything in threes: three petals, three sepals, one whorl of three leaves.
The print
- The full plate with its name, legend and credits, re-rendered from the source scan at print size, not enlarged from a shirt file.
- Restored from a library scan of the original book; nothing redrawn.
- Keep out of direct sunlight; a frame with glass or acrylic keeps it clean.
Shipping & production
Each print is printed for you after you order, usually within 2–5 business days, and ships on its own (separate from any shirts or framed prints in the same order). Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay.
Returns
If your print arrives damaged or misprinted, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every print is made to order, we can't accept returns for a change of mind.
Plate 007
From the book
- Species
- Trillium grandiflorum
- As named in the book
- Snow Trillium.
- Artist
- Mary Vaux Walcott
- Book
- North American Wild Flowers, vol. III, pl. 240, 1925
“As the flowers fade they are flushed with a dainty pink color.”
Then and now
Walcott called it the snow trillium; that name now belongs to a smaller species, Trillium nivale.
Field notes
Each one took seven to ten years to flower, from a seed planted by ants.
Walcott painted it life-size: three white petals, three green sepals, one whorl of three leaves. Trillium: everything in threes. She noticed what anyone who has watched a hillside of them knows: "As the flowers fade they are flushed with a dainty pink color."
A trillium in bloom is the work of a decade. The seed needs a couple of years just to sprout; the young plant then spends seven to ten years, sometimes far longer, building its rhizome before it can afford a flower.
Its planting is done by ants. Each seed carries a small fleshy cap, an elaiosome, that ants eat. They haul the seeds home and toss them on the nest's refuse pile, good ground for a trillium to start. All that slowness makes them fragile: picking the flower takes its only leaves, and where deer are thick, whole woods stop blooming.