Hepatica Miller Hepatica nobilis, Miller

15. Hepatica Miller View in CoL 1

Like Anemone but with 3- to 5-lobed evergreen leaves with entire or crenate-dentate lobes, and a calyx-like involucre of 3 small entire bracts usually close below the flower. Rhizome short; leaf-lobes entire (rarely with 1-2 teeth); pollengrains with 3 pores 1. nobilis Rhizome long; leaf lobes with 3-5 large crenations; pollen-grains with 5 pores 2. transsilvanica

1. H. nobilis Miller View in CoL , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 1 (1768)

( Anemone hepatica L. ).

Stock short, thick, dark brown. Petioles and peduncles 5-15 cm. Leaves often purplish beneath, cordate at base, 3-lobed; lobes ovate, sericeous when young and sometimes persistently villous beneath. Flowers 15-25 mm in diameter, bluish-violet, purple, white or pinkish. Bracts ovate, entire. Perianth of 6-7(-10) narrow, ovate segments. 2«= 14. Most o f continental Europe, except the extreme north and south; Corse. Al Au Bu Co Cz D a Fe G a Ge He Hs H u It Ju N o Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W) Su.