Photo of Trillium albidum Freeman (Melanthiaceae), shown here, a white-petaled Trillium native to the Pacific western United States.

Taxonomic insights from floral scents of western North American sessile-flowered #Trillium

New #AJB research by Kjirsten Wayman, Matthew Reilly & Alaina Petlewski

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #taxonomy #Melanthiaceae

It grows from an onion-like bulb and is also known as a #DeathCamus. Several years ago this plant was classified as a #lily, hence the common name #starlily. #Botanists have recently classified this extremely toxic plant was moved to a new group - #Melanthiaceae (#Trillium).