European White Hellebore Pictures, Images and Stock Photos

Hellebore is a poisonous white alpine flower

"Short, tufted perennial, generally with two basal leaves. Leaves palmately-lobed, dull green, the lobes further lobed and toothed, hairless beneath, not overwintering. Flowers half-nodding, yellowish-green, 40-50mm, with spreading sepals.Habitat: Damp calcareous woodland and scrub, growing in deep leaf-mould, to 1600m.Flowering Season: February-April.Distribution: E France and Germany. Sometimes grown in gardens.All parts of the plant are extremely poisonous, with the glycosides Helleborin and Helleborein.Related images:"

Hellebore is a poisonous white alpine flower

"Short, tufted perennial, generally with two basal leaves. Leaves palmately-lobed, dull green, the lobes further lobed and toothed, hairless beneath, not overwintering. Flowers half-nodding, yellowish-green, 40-50mm, with spreading sepals.Habitat: Damp calcareous woodland and scrub, growing in deep leaf-mould, to 1600m.Flowering Season: February-April.Distribution: E France and Germany. Sometimes grown in gardens.All parts of the plant are extremely poisonous, with the glycosides Helleborin and Helleborein.Related images:"

Beautiful green plant called White hellebore or white veratrum founded in the highlands of the Carpathians

Illustration of Veratrum album, perennial herb known as hemetic in antiquity, with high poisonous roots

Useful and medicinal plants: 1-2) European white hellebore (Veratrum album); 3-4) Autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale); 5-7) Garden asparagus (Asparagus officinalis); 8-9) Solomon's seal (Polygonatum odoratum, or Convallaria polygonatum); 10) David's harp (Polygonatum multiflorum, or Convallaria multiflora); 11) Wild leek (Allium ampeloprasum, or Allium porrum); 12-13) Sea squill (Drimia maritima, or Scilla maritima); 14) Dog's-tooth-violet (Erythronium dens-canis); 15-17) Mouse Thorn (Ruscus hypoglossum); 18-19) Mediterranean smilax (Smilax aspera); 20-21) False lily of the valley (Maianthemum bifolium); 22-23) Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia). Hand-colored wood engraving, published in 1887.

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

Veratrum album, Pyrenees Orientales : Bouillouses lake

White flowers and green leaves of Phytolacca acinosa grass. Indian pokeweed after the rain. Closeup.

Pink blooming mezereum, mezereon, february daphne, spurge laurel or spurge olive (Daphne mezereum) spring flowers next to false helleborine, white hellebore (Veratrum album) plants

Mountain pasture on a mountain pass overgrown with flowering false helleborine (Veratrum album) plants and surrounded by woodland aboe Jezersko in Gorenjska region of Slovenia

Lush alpine vegetation with yellow flowers and false helleborine, white hellebore (Veratrum album)

White flowers and green leaves of Phytolacca acinosa grass. Indian pokeweed after the rain. Closeup.

White flowers and green leaves of Phytolacca acinosa grass. Indian pokeweed after the rain. Closeup.

bush of pale pink oleander. blossom pink flowers

Lush alpine wild garden with yellow flowers and false helleborine, white hellebore (Veratrum album) and surrounded by creeping pine or mugo pine

Veratrum album in grass on kopaonik mountain, Serbia.

Veratrum album, Pyrenees Orientales : Bouillouses lake

Beautiful green plant called White hellebore or white veratrum founded in the highlands of the Carpathians

Beautiful green plant called White hellebore or white veratrum founded in the highlands of the Carpathians

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia

flowers captured in Bohinj valley Slovenia