This is the original "toadshade" so often seen wrongly named as sessile in botanic gardens and nurseries.

It is also known as whip-poor-will flower, large toadshade, purple toadshade, and bloody butcher.

Trillium discolor, the mottled wakerobin, faded trillium or small yellow toadshade, is a spring-flowering perennial plant.

Trillium sessile, the toadshade or sessile-flowered wake-robin, is a perennial spring wildflower native to the central part of the eastern United States and the Ozarks.

Early in the trillium season it makes upright slender growths with wonderfully marked and mottled foliage and miniature elongated "toadshade" flowers of rich, shiny maroon.

Enjoy a walk along the C&O Canal in Bethesda while a guide points out such local wildflowers as the Virginia bluebell, Dutchman’s breeches, trout lily, toadshade and others.

Trillium albidum, known by the common names giant white wakerobin, white toadshade, and sweet trillium, is a species of flowering plant native to the northwestern United States from Washington to central California.

Trillium sessile, the toadshade or sessile-flowered wake-robin, is a perennial spring wildflower native to the central part of the eastern United States and the Ozarks.