This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Family, Lily. Perianth of 6 lily-like divisions, white with a tinge of pink, the sepals curled backward. Stamens, 6. Style, long and projecting, bearing 3 stigmas. Flowers, single, showy, nodding. A pair of opposite leaves, spotted or entirely green, springs from the flower-stem. April.
Deep, cool, moist woods. New Jersey westward and southward as far as Texas. Rare in the Eastern States.
 
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