Perennial Herb
General Habitat: Found in mature hardwood forests. Sites are sometimes mixed with mature pines. Occurs in rich cove sites with moist, well-drained, deep soils in mixtures of other wildflowers along streams, on stream terraces and in lime-sink depressions. Found in southwest, central and east-central Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama mostly near the fall line.
General Description: : This perennial herbaceous monocot has three elliptical, pointed leaves 2-5in (5-13cm) long, each mottled in several shades of green and growing from a reclining stem that is 2-10in (5-25cm) long. Each leaf has a silver streak down its center. A single flower arises without a stalk from the top of the stem where leaves form a whorl. The flower has three slightly twisted, dark purple to greenish-yellow petals. The six anthers have prominent prolonged tips known as "beaks". Flowers from March to April with fruiting from May to June. The fruit is a round, fleshy capsule 0.4in (1cm) in diameter.
