Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales
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PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Helleborus orientalis
FAMILY
Ranunculaceae
COMMON NAME:
Lenten-rose
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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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