Perhaps no place on earth has more spectacular displays of trilliums than the Great Smoky Mountains. Each spring I find myself in awe that something so beautiful can be so easy to find in the wilderness. We are fortunate that trilliums are so plentiful and diverse in our area where we boast at least eight recognized species of the thirty-five found in eastern North America. Worldwide, trilliums occur only in North America (forty-two species) and eastern Asia (one species).