Large-flowered Trillium Tote
Large-flowered Trillium Tote
Size
16 × 14½ × 5 in, with 24½ in straps (1 in wide). Holds up to 30 lb. The plate is printed about 6 × 10 in on the front.
Everything in threes: three petals, three sepals, one whorl of three leaves.
The tote
- The full plate with its name, legend and credits, printed on the front.
- Econscious organic cotton tote in Oyster: 8 oz (272 g/m²) 3/1 twill, open main compartment.
- Wash cold, inside out; hang to dry.
Shipping & production
Each one is made for you after you order, usually within 2–5 business days. Shipping is shown at checkout before you pay; items from different makers may arrive in separate boxes.
Returns
If your tote arrives damaged, misprinted or defective, contact us within 30 days of delivery with a photo and we'll send a replacement or a refund. Because every tote 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.