How to Use trillium in a Sentence

trillium

noun
  • Look for the leaves of prairie trillium and great white trillium.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Prairie trillium is a woodland species, not a grassland species.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Creamy Western trillium offer contrast to the fifty shades of green.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
  • Years ago, many more trilliums were blooming inside the fence, compared with outside.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Everybody loves trillium, and there are many different kinds of it.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2022
  • As the season wears on, the white trillium turns to pink and eventually withers.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Trillium and Timothy lakes on Mount Hood are on this week's list.
    — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017
  • Also look for trillium, wild geranium, jack-in-the-pulpit and yellow trout lily.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Rhododendrons, trilliums and other woodland plants line the walkway through the fir grove.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 9 May 2018
  • Make sure to think about color early in the season, with early-blooming species like hellebore and trillium.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2020
  • This is Trillium ovatum, our native trillium with a flower that is borne on a stalk rather than right against the leaves.
    — oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2022
  • After the snow melts away from the mountains, passengers can spot trout lilies, purple spring beauties, and red trillium.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
  • One area is carpeted with ramps, trillium blossoms and other wildflowers in the spring.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In spring, wildflowers, like phlox, buttercups, and trillium, come into full bloom and line the hiking trails.
    — Erin Gifford, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 May 2023
  • The scientists fan out across the open, sunny forest abloom with spring wildflowers such as jack-in-the-pulpit and red trillium.
    — National Geographic, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Visitors might identify a trillium flower by its three petals (which might be white, pink or purple), with the bloom jutting up above three leaves.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2023
  • This spring, make sure to stop by the Trillium Trail, where beautiful trillium flowers bloom.
    — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The white trillium has bounced back exponentially.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Choose from several colors, including natural rose, bone, black, trillium green, and more.
    — Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Other spring flowers to look for include spring beauty, trillium, violets and wild geranium.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Campbell understands rural Michigan down to its trillium roots.
    — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The flowers include red trillium, trailing arbutus and pink moccasin flower.
    — Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 14 May 2017
  • There's a fern garden, and cyclamen, narcissus, erythronium and trillium bring more color to the scene.
    — Homes & Gardens Of The Northwest Staff, OregonLive.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • After a 1-mile hike through a hardwood forest filled with trilliums in the summer, visitors reach an observation platform at the top of the falls.
    — Mark Spezia, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2017
  • The wildflowers start popping in late March, but things really get going in April, when trillium and pink lady’s slippers bloom.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 7 Oct. 2020
  • With three methods of reproduction, lesser celandine can spread very rapidly in areas with disturbed soils, crowding out native species like spring beauties and trilliums.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2024
  • More than 2 acres of gardens include vast swathes of shade-loving plants like hostas and trilliums and a liberal sprinkling of flowering woody shrubs like lilacs and rhododendrons.
    — Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
  • Portlanders can find trillium flowers blooming at Forest Park and Tryon Creek.
    — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The mottled fronds of waterleaf came next, followed by mayapples unfurling their glossy umbrellas and the extravagant white of the first trilliums.
    — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2020
  • One of the best places to see a wide expanse of great white trillium in Lake County is at Wright Woods near Vernon Hills.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026

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