Wake robin trillium (Trillium erectum (L.))

Wake robin trillium (Trillium erectum (L.))

Botany

Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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. Trillium erectum’s single whorl of diamond-shaped leaves clasp its 6-18 in. stem. Perched 1-4 in. above the leaves is a single, nodding, crimson flower with three petals curved slightly backward. The petals wither in 2-3 weeks, leaving a fleshy, berry-like fruit. The solitary, nodding flower, with an unpleasant odor, rises on a stalk above a whorl of 3 broadly ovate, diamond-shaped leaves.

Chaffin, J. D.

Civilian Conservation Corps Collection

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

1937-05-26

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drawings (visual works)

eng

StillImage

20319

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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

14.75" x 11.5"(dimension)

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