Regarding its favorite haunts, Mr. Baldwin says: "Its preference is for maples, beeches, and particularly butternuts, and for sloping or hilly ground, and I always look with glad suspicion at a knoll covered with ferns, cohoshes, and trilliums, expecting to see a clump of this plant among them. Its sentinel-like habit of choosing 'sightly places' leads it to venture well up on mountain sides." The long, wavy, brownish petals give the flower and alert, startled look when surprised in its lonely hiding places."

-How to Know the Wild Flowers by Mrs. William Starr Dana