Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Trillium”
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Ants in your plants! How ants support native flora (and vice versa)
Before you squish that ant you find crawling on your native plant, consider this: ants play a vital role in supporting native plants.
How? Read on!
Myrmecophytes The word for a plant that has a symbiotic relationship with ants is a “myrmecophyte.” This is just a conglomeration of the Greek words for “ant” and “plant.”
That relationship can take a number of different forms. In ecological terms, they are often mutualisms, where both the ant and the plant benefit from the interaction.
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Native Plant Showcase: Trillium erectum
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – when trilliums are in bloom! Since I can’t get out in the woods much right now, instead have some completely useless facts about red trilliums.
Red trillium (Trillium erectum), like all trilliums, is a monocot, meaning it arises from a seed with a single cotyledon or seed leaf. Most plants are dicots, which have seeds with two cotyledons, so this makes trilliums a little bit special.
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