Trillium Bloom in Upper Michigan
Trillium Bloom in Upper Michigan
There are many signs that spring is unfolding into summer and one sign is when the trillium bloom. These protected wild orchids are a wild flower. There are up to 50 species of trillium and in Michigan, the most common species is the trillium grandiflorium or large flowered trillium.
In Northern Michigan, late April through mid-May is trillium season. The woods explode with a carpet of trillium and create an incredible landscape that exists only for these few weeks.
~Info from VisitMichiganUpNorth.com
May 26, 2018
That’s my provincial flower ❤️
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Chelley Chelle another Canadian just educated me about that over on Facebook. 🙂
I learned something new today!
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Today was our first warm day in May, AD 2018, here in America’s 10th largest city. It has been the first year in more than a decade when our brown season started cool as opposed to warm.
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Rodney Graves We skipped over Spring… the temperature in the Upper Peninsula is unseasonably warm…as is Chicagoland for May.
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Big Country. Lots of variability. Climate is what one expects, weather is what one gets.
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Well, I didn’t know they were a variety of orchid… so I learneded too! 👍
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Chelley Chelle I too was surprised when I read that on the Michigan site… I had always heard lily family as well. 🙂
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OMG BZ — we just returned from a trip to the Sleeping Bear Dunes area. The trilliums (trillii?) were blooming everywhere! As I recall, we started seeing them in the woods and along the roadside once we got north of Cadillac. (We stayed with a friend on Little Platte Lake near Honor.)
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William Parmley that looks most inviting! Seeing the blooms has been quite a thrill for me, too. 🙂
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