Trillium parryi, July 6, 2023
Common & scientific name
Parry’s clover, Trifolium parryi
Family
Pea, Fabaceae
Location
Roadside, 11,500’
Fun, weird, helpful, or little known fact
One of our half-dozen wonderful clovers, found primarily in the alpine in wettish places, and named, as so many plants are, after the 19th century botanist/explorer, Charles Parry. How thrilling it must have been for Mr. Parry to be exploring the West in the early 1800s, seeing new flower after new flower, making one amazing “discovery” after the next (for western science, that is—native Americans had known these plants well for thousands of years).