Red Trillium Traditional Cache

Red Trillium or Wake Robin grows on the slope, right below the cache. It's too steep for me. I was looking for a hiding place for False Solomon's Seal, when I got excited at the sight of the Red Trilliums. Find the False Solomon's Seal in front of the cache, the Red Trilliums behind it.

Trillium erectum, also known as red trillium,^[3] wake-robin, purple trillium,^[4] Beth root, or stinking Benjamin,^[5] is a species of flowering plant native to the east and north-east of North America. It is a spring ephemeral, an herbaceous perennial whose life-cycle is synchronised with that of the deciduous forests where it lives.

Like all trilliums, its parts are in groups of three, with 3-petalled flowers above whorls of pointed triple leaves.^[6] The leaves contain calcium oxalate crystals and crystal raphide, and should not be consumed by humans. The flowers are a deep red colour, though there is a white form. The flowers have the smell of rotting meat, as they are pollinated by flies.

The plant takes its name "wake-robin" by analogy with the robin, which has a red breast heralding spring.

The root was traditionally used as an aid in childbirth, hence the name “Bethroot” (a corruption of “birth root”). Native Americans used root tea for menstrual disorders, to induce childbirth, and to aid in labor. The whole plant was made into a poultice used to treat tumors, inflammation, and ulcers.

The cache is a "small" camoed pill bottle with only a rolled log with a rubber band, sealed in a small zip lock plastic bag. If you put the rubber band on your finger while logging, you're less apt to lose it. BYOP and please try to avoid using tweezers as they tend to kill the plastic.