Towards Turtle Mountain

[soemand]

Someone with better botany skills than I — pretty much anyone… — can probably spout off some random latin to describe this.

I'll go with Pretty.

Comments

[madripoor_rose]

Looks like painted trillium to me, and very pretty indeed.

[marycatelli]

I thought so too, but -- four petals!

[angrboda]

Some sort of mutation maybe? I'm not familiar with this plant (wrong continent) so I had to look it up (can they grow in my garden plz?) and it's seems pretty clear. In my childhood home there was a particular patch in the lawn where you could find an astounding amount of four (sometimes more) leaf clovers, so maybe something similar happened here?

[marycatelli]

Hmmmmm

At least the leaves come in threes

[shirebound]

It sure is. What a lovely bloom.

[adafrog]

Pretty works for me too.

[yourlibrarian]

Nice find!

[cmcmck]

I think your description works well enough for me!

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

At first I thought trillium, then saw it had four petals. But it turns out, they can have four:

http://jimmccormac.blogspot.com/2011/05/unusual-quadrillium.html