| Description | An early spring blooming plant found growing in deciduous forests. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | 4 |
| Sunlight | shaded, spring full sun |
| Moisture | average to moist, I have seen them mostly in moist sites |
| Soil & Site | rich, usually deciduous, woods |
| Flowers | 5 to 1 inch wide, blue, pink to white, usually 5-11 petal-like sepals, long hairy stalks, many times before the leaves appear |
| Leaves | basal, 3 rounded lobes, bronze-green changing to green, can persist through the winter |
| Roots | tufts of fibrous roots |
| Propagation | all methods are rather difficult, division in the fall, cold stratified seeds |
| Native Site | Native to North America. |
| Author's Notes | An area I frequent in the spring is Martins Woods, a nature conservancy in Big Bend Wisconsin (USA). The Hepatica will form small clumps of flowers many times pushing through the leaves. There are white pink and blue in this moist deciduous forest. |
| Notes & Reference | #100-Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (Merel Black and Emmet Judziewicz), #153-Illinois Wild Flower (www.illinoiswildflowers.info) |
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