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Red Trillium
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This Red Trillium, Trillium erectum, is a common wildflower that grows sometimes in great, colonial masses in cool, moist, but well drained soils of woodland ecosystems throughout the eastern half of the United States. Extracts of the roots and poultices of the entire plant have astringent and antiseptic properties and were used by Native Americans in a variety of medicinal applications including the control of uterine bleeding during parturition. |