Trillium foetidissimum

Trillium foetidissimum, also known as the Mississippi River wakerobin, stinking trillium, or fetid trillium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is found along the Louisiana–Mississippi border in a variety of habitats.

Trillium foetidissimum is a perennial herbaceous plant that blooms from early March to early April.

Description
The plant is brown colored with horizontal rhizomes and bracts. It carries 1-2 scapes which are 0.8 - 2.8 dm from green to maroon-colored and are round at cross section. Leaves are either light or bronze-green in color. Sepals are located above the bracts and are green colored, horizontal, and lanceolate. They are 16 – long and 4 – wide and are thick. Petals are erect while apex is acute. Flaments are 3 – long and are dark maroon in color while stamens are 9 – and are both erect and prominent. Anthlers are straight, 8 – long, and are blackish-maroon in color. The species also have erect and ovate ovary which is 5 - 12 mm long and is reddish-purple in color. Stigma is also erect and dark purple in color but is subulate and fleshy unlike the ovary. The flower is sessile, of a maroon color fading to brown with narrow lanceolate petals. It emits a smell of rotting meat to attract insect pollinators, hence the name. Its leaves are strongly mottled. The flower turns to a purple-brown berry in autumn.