Snow Trillium (1) -- Trillium nivale

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Snow Trillium (1) -- Trillium nivale
Snow Trillium (1) -- Trillium nivale

Jennings County, Indiana.

In both the spring of 2023 and 2024, I’ve worked on a project to try to find snow trillium (Trillium nivale) in Indiana counties from which there were no confirmed records. Although I’ve had some success, it has turned out to be more difficult and time consuming than I had expected. I’m rethinking how much effort I want to continue putting into it during future springs since I’d rather enjoy it in places where I know it to be than to make it into “work” and miss communing with them at some my favorite snow trillium haunts. I hear that the thing they now refer to as “forest bathing” is becoming quite a thing these days. In looking into what forest bathing is, well shoot, I’ve been doing that for years in some of my favorite places surrounded by some of my favorite forest plant and animal friends like deeply absorbing the song of a wood thrush or soaking in the aura of a fine spring day surrounded by patches of snow trillium. I prefer the relaxed, spiritual approach as opposed to the “sheesh, this is a lot of work” approach. After all, I’m retired. Maybe I should act like it more often!

The 2023/2024 winter in Indiana was very mild and that was followed by an early spring. I knew that my target trilliums would be up earlier than normal, which is very early anyway. An acquaintance of mine found them flowering this year in the Harrison and Crawford County area near the Ohio River on February 18th!! I’ve never seen them that early. In order to learn if they were coming into flower yet in places I know, I went to a reliable patch in Jennings County I’ve been to many times. I found them in flower on February 29th, the earliest I’ve personally seen them in Indiana. Only about 20 were flowering that day but remarkably they were all very, very tiny even for snow trillium which is normally a very small plant. My car key FOB is only 2 ½ inches by 1 ½ inches and in one of the accompanying photos, three trilliums occupy the same amount of space as my FOB!

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Taken on: February 29, 2024
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