Mayapple is a perennial, native wildflower. It has only two leaves and one nodding, white to rose-colored flower, which grows in the axil of the leaves and has six to nine waxy white petals. The large, twin, umbrella-like leaves of the Mayapple are showy and conspicuous. They remain closed as the stem lengthens, unfolding six to eight inches across when the plant has reached its one to 1-1/2-foot height. It grows in part shade and shade in humus-rich soil in woodlands, shaded meadows, or shaded riverbanks. (EW)