(Emma Marris for The Washington Post)It is spring in the mountains, for I have seen my first trillium. One study found 67 percent of new trillium plants within three feet of their parent plants. Mice like trillium seeds, and unlike ants, they eat the elaiosomes and the seeds. In regrowing clearcuts and nearby forests, there are so many mice that nearly all the trillium seeds are eaten. Sometimes, you can still find trillium flowers in clearcuts.

Source: Washington Post May 19, 2019 15:00 UTC