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false hellebores
Veratrum
Veratrum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Melanthiaceae. It occurs in damp habitats across much of temperate and subarctic Europe, Asia, and North America.
26 branches of this genus, most-observed first
green false hellebore
speciesVeratrum viride

Corn Lily
speciesVeratrum californicum

White Hellebore
speciesVeratrum lobelianum

White Hellebore
speciesVeratrum album

Black False-hellebore
speciesVeratrum nigrum

white false hellebore
speciesVeratrum oxysepalum

fringed false hellebore
speciesVeratrum fimbriatum

Veratrum formosanum
speciesVeratrum formosanum

Siskiyou false-hellebore
speciesVeratrum insolitum

Japanese False Hellebore
speciesVeratrum schindleri

Veratrum maackii
speciesVeratrum maackii

Veratrum dahuricum
speciesVeratrum dahuricum

Veratrum stamineum
speciesVeratrum stamineum

Veratrum grandiflorum
speciesVeratrum grandiflorum

Veratrum versicolor
speciesVeratrum versicolor

Veratrum anticleoides
speciesVeratrum anticleoides

Veratrum dolichopetalum
speciesVeratrum dolichopetalum

Veratrum longebracteatum
speciesVeratrum longebracteatum
Veratrum mengtzeanum
speciesVeratrum mengtzeanum
Veratrum shanense
speciesVeratrum shanense
Veratrum taliense
speciesVeratrum taliense
Veratrum maximum
speciesVeratrum maximum
Veratrum × tonussii
hybridVeratrum × tonussii
Veratrum micranthum
speciesVeratrum micranthum
Veratrum oblongum
speciesVeratrum oblongum
Veratrum albiflorum
speciesVeratrum albiflorum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries

De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.633

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.780

Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.264

Christoph Jakob Trew — Uitgezochte planten (1771)
Christoph Jakob Trew · 1771 · p.242

The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.144

Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.304

On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.625

De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.635

De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.635

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.695

Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.695

Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1391
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Veratrum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 60502.