Trillium or Arisaema For Lori

From the veins on the leaves I would say Arisaema :o)

Thanks Ph , it's not what I expected it to look like , I don't know why ! perhaps because I have Trillium myself these look so much like it and after seeing photos of the hillsides covered in Trilliums on Loris land in Canada It made me wonder which I had .. I can't wait to see these flower :o)

Please keep me posted on the outcome :o)

I will Ph , I'm going back to Lori's site to have another look at her photos !
I'm pretty sure you are right Ph the leaves are much broader and bigger on the Trilliums .. :o)

Ph Lori has confirmed that this is indeed Arisaema I will PM you !

The leaves of the trillium are in fact brachts...and Ph is right the trillium brachts are almost square...the arisaema are more like an elypse and a darker more glossy green. If you look closely at the point where the leaf shoot emerges from the soil you will see that it folds like a sheath around a fleshy nodule which in the next season will put up two identical leaf shoots with the blossom (pulpit and spathe) in the middle.
Interesting note about the leaves of the trillium...they are underground!...what you see above ground are food producing brachts! if a person picks the bracht and flower then they have deprived the rhizome of food and it dies...that's why it's illegal to pick the white trillium here in Ontario. The pigs love them...and have eaten them all off part of my hillside.

Thanks for all that information Lori , fancy the pigs eating them I thought they might be poisonous ,what a shame if you lose yours on the hillside that would be tragic :o(

I'm thankful that there are so many, Amy. I have pics of last spring and it's obvious where they rooted thro the leaf detritis to get at the underground stems and the rhizomes...I actually saw the sow eat one...crunch, crunch, crunch. Also hope it's not tempting fate to say this...but it appears that they have constructed a pen and a barn for them on their hillside. There is a small lake above us which has been dammed by beaver and last Saturday someone destroyed the dam and all the stinking horrible water came down our hill like a tidal bore...All the work I did with the banks/rocks has been buried in stinky silt. part of my largest bed was flooded and almost washed away. planning a blog about same, just too busy trying to clean up the mess...I'm too exhausted from shovelling and raking to type! X-(

Oh Lori that is awful ,I'm so sorry ! all the hard work you put into that project ,can the people responsible be named and shamed ? , you moved from one home because of pollution of the land ,it's so unfair :o( if you repeat your work and put it right is it likely to happen again ? don't hurt yourself by doing too much at once , life is a challenge ,take your time put your tools down occasionally and give yourself some treats :o)