An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Genus 15. CROWFOOT FAMILY. 15. HEPATICA [Rupp.] Mill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. Perennial scapose herbs, with long-petioled thick 3-lobed evergreen basal leaves, and large white or purple flowers, solitary on slender scapes. Involucre of 3 small sessile leaves close under the Houers, simulating a calyx. Sepals m
An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Genus 15. CROWFOOT FAMILY. 15. HEPATICA [Rupp.] Mill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. Perennial scapose herbs, with long-petioled thick 3-lobed evergreen basal leaves, and large white or purple flowers, solitary on slender scapes. Involucre of 3 small sessile leaves close under the Houers, simulating a calyx. Sepals membranous, petal-like. Stamens all anther-bearing. Achenes short-beaked, pubescent. [Name ancient, from the supposed re- semblance of the leaves to the liver.] .\ genus of about 4 species, natives of the north temperate zone. Only the following are known from North America. Type species: Anemone Hepatica L. Hepatica Hepatica (L.) Karst. Rcund-lobed or Kidney Liver-leaf. Noble Liverwort. Fig. L. bp. PI. 538. Hepatica triloba Chaix in Vill. H 1: 336. 1786. Hepatica 1880-83, PI. Dauph. Hepatica Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 559. Scapes 4'-6' high, villous; roots fibrous. Leaves long-petioled, reniform, 2'-2i' broad when mature, spreading on the ground, 3- lobed, and the lobes sometimes toothed or again lobed, obtuse; involucre of 3 sessile obtuse oblong leaves immediately under the flowers; flowers blue, purple or white, 6'-io' broad; sepals oval or oblong, ob- tuse, longer than the stamens; achenes several, 2' long, oblong, acute, hairy. In woods, often in large tufts, Nova Scotia to northern Florida, west to Manitoba. Iowa and Missouri. .-Maska. Ascends to 2600 ft. in Virginia. Also in Europe and .^sia. Dec- May. Heart- or three-leaf liverwort. Liver- moss. Mouse-ears. Spring-beauty. Co'Stal- wort. Golden trefoil. I\-y-fIower. Herb Trinity. Squirrel-cup.
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