Trillium grandiflorum (Michx.) Salisb.

Trillium grandiflorum (Michx.) Salisb.

Botany

Trilliums -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Wild flowers

Botanical illustration

Mountain plants

Little is known about J.D. Chaffin, the artist who made these drawings. Most likely, Chaffin was an enrollee in one of the 22 CCC camps in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Almost all of the pen-and-ink sketches in this series are of flora and fauna of the region, with a few of cultural artifacts and trail scenes. All of the drawings are signed and dated, most to 1937. A stout, 12-15 in. stem is topped by three large, oval leaves. A single large, white, long-lasting flower arises above the leaf whorl and becomes pink as it matures. The large, solitary, waxy-white flower (turning pink with age) is on an erect stalk above a whorl of 3 broad leaves.

Chaffin, J. D.

Civilian Conservation Corps Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1937

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drawings (visual works)

eng

StillImage

20318

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2015-06-01

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Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

14.5" x 11.5"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America