See quot. 1911. In England the name is given to the cuckoo-pint. (‘Century Dict.’)
1851. It was a wake-robin, commonly known as dragon-root, devil’s ear, or Indian turnip.—S. Judd, ‘Margaret,’ i. 34.
1911. [The flower is] a sturdy denizen of neighboring woods, whose shaded recesses are even now white with its sisters or duskily red with the Oriental hues of its cousins. It is a lonely wake-robin, alighted in a city yard, one of the lily family—trillium grandiflorum, to be exact.—N.Y. Ev. Post, May 18.
