Beth Root Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Beth Root (Trillium erectum), the red trillium or stinking Benjamin, is a woodland perennial of the Melanthiaceae family, formerly placed in the lilies, native to rich, moist deciduous forests of eastern North America from Quebec and Ontario south through the Appalachians to Georgia. A single stem 20 to 40 centimeters tall carries a whorl of three broad, diamond-shaped leaves and, in spring, one nodding flower with three deep maroon petals that smells of wet dog, an odor that attracts carrion flies. The fruit is a dark red, fleshy, six-angled berry. The short, thick, knotted rhizome is harvested after the leaves die back. We extract the dried root.