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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Helleborus orientalis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
Lenten-rose


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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Helleborus orientalis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

 

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3998

Forb
Perennial

Non-native: Greece, Turkey, Caucasian Russia

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Palmately compound: 7-9 leaflets
Margins sharply serrate

FLOWER:
Spring
White, greenish, purplish, rose
Radially symmetrical
5 petaloid sepals
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:

 

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