How To Use Wake-robin In A Sentence

The large flowered wake-robin is probably the showiest one.
Newcomb had used the same term to describe the habitat of the Canada violets that I had found massed in a moist shady spot, as well as for the beautiful crimson wake-robins, or red trilliums, that bloomed here and there on the forest floor.
The trillium or western wake-robin as it is sometimes known is an attractive perennial wildflower suitable for shady woodland gardens.
One of the most chastely beautiful of our native wild flowers -- so lovely that many shady nooks in English rock-gardens and ferneries contain imported clumps of the vigorous plant -- is the Large-flowered Wake-Robin, or White Wood Lily (_T. grandiflorum_). Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
White trilliums are also known as large-flowered trilliums, snow trilliums, showy trilliums, grand trilliums, and white wake-robins.

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Three sepals, three petals, twice three stamens, three styles, a three-celled ovary, the flower growing out from a whorl of three leaves, make the naming of wake-robins a simple matter to the novice.
It was a wake-robin, commonly known as dragonroot, devil's ear, or Indian turnip. Margaret