Scientific Name
Veratrum viride

Common Name
False hellebore; American white hellebore
Life Cycle: Perennial


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Height: 2 to 6 feet
Flower/fruit: Numerous small, downy, yellow-green flowers on branching stem  
Flowering Season: Summer
Foliage: 6 to 12 inch ovate leaves end in a sharp point; strongly ribbed; mostly parallel veins; clasps onto a stout, downy stem
Site: Swamps, wet woods, meadows
Comments: All parts of the plant are poisonous
 
 

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