Bloom Time
Mar, Apr, May, Dec
Plant Type
Herb/Forb, Ground Cover, Perennial, Poisonous
Lifespan
Perennial
Flower
Beautiful harbingers of spring, with interesting, nodding solitary winter flowers, 2.5" wide and saucer shaped. A stalked cyme or panicle, terminal, bracteated, often nodding; bracts gigantic, leaf-like, dark green, entire to sparsely toothed, +/- lobed. 1-many, usually greenish, tinted gold or brown, pink or purple, cup or bowl-shaped, nodding, 3-4" dia; sepals 5, showy, pigmented, broadly ovate-elliptic; inner petal segments numerous, consisting of tubular nectaries, green to greenish-yellow, ephemeral; stamens numerous, anther yellow.
Fruit
Clustered, green, fleshy capsules, long-beaked, surrounded by persistent sepals.
Bees
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Ranunculaceae
Genus
Helleborus
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