#round-lobed hepatica

[vandaliatraveler]

NC-WV is finally enjoying a dry, sunny spring weekend after weeks of near nonstop, flooding rain. That was all the incentive I needed to take my first long hike of the spring at Coopers Rock State Forest. The wildflower progression on top of Chestnut Ridge is running about 2 weeks behind that at lower elevations, but there were plenty of early spring beauties on display this afternoon. From top: Allegheny serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis); long-spurred violet (Viola rostrata); halberd-leaved yellow violet (Viola hastata); downy rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera pubescens); trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens), which is not herbaceous but a mat-forming, evergreen shrub in the health family; broadleaf toothwort (Cardamine diphylla), also known as two-leaf toothwort; and round-lobed hepatica (Hepatica americana), which prefers drier woods than sharp-lobed hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba), which I typically find growing on the rocky, calcareous slopes along the Monongahela River.

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

Hello, hepatica!

[middleland]

Early Spring Wildflowers by Sarah Throckmorton

Via Flickr:

Early wildflowers beginning to emerge. I believe these are Round-Lobed Hepatica(?). Found at Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park in Ohio www.sarahthrockmorton.com     

[mydonkeyfeet]

Round lobed hepatica, my favorite flower which only blooms very briefly at the earliest start of spring. (I love sharp lobed hepatica equally.)

I had to leave work a little early because I just could NOT function with all that's going on in Gaza (and Sudan, Congo, and the rest of the world), so I went to the botanical garden to see if my beloved little hepatica was flowering. I knew it was the absolute only thing that might make me feel better.

PS If you see them blooming near you, please take pics and show me.

[leaveharmony]

Attempting to level up with wildflower and weed identification in the neighbourhood:

Birdfoot trefoil

Black medic

my old friend Pineapple weed

Evening lychinis

Everlasting pea

Bladder campion (I think)

actually fucking Nightshade!

There were a few others I haven't figured out yet but yeah...yeah. I also am pretty sure the mystery six petaled purple fellas from spring were "round-lobed hepatica," but I never remembered to take the camera in time to get pictures of them.

[geopsych]

Hepatica leaves that waited out the winter. Buds are forming now or maybe have formed and the stems will start to grow.

[debunkshy]

Round-lobed Hepatica

Walking Iron, WI, 4-23-17

[scalygems]

🌿 Lord of the Forest 🌿

Just a fun one of a Drymarchon melanurus erebennus, or Texas indigo snake, with round-lobed hepatica. Drymarchon are the coolest snakes, sorry I don't make the rules.

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[rock-cedar-mosquito]

First wildflowers of the season! Round lobed hepatica (Anemone americana), Carolina spring beauty (Claytonia caroliniana), and Dutchman’s breeches (Dicentra cucullaria). The trout lilies are looking promising too.

[photorator]

Anemone americana - Round-lobed Hepatica in the Baraboo Hills WI

[vandaliatraveler]

Round-lobed hepatica (Hepatica Anemone americana), one of the earliest-blooming and most beautiful of Central Appalachia’s spring wildflowers, blooms so quickly in late March to early April the flowers are gone before most people notice them. But the plant’s leathery, thrice-lobed leaves persist throughout the year, even through winter. The leaves reminded early mountain folk of the human liver- thus its other common name, liverleaf. Another species - sharp-lobed hepatica (Hepatica Anemone acutiloba) - also occurs locally. You can search from the main blog page for prior posts of both species.

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

[mikethegardener]

Not fair as gardening since I didn't plant them, but I present to you a round lobe hepatica I found in the woods on our property.

[geopsych]

This hepatica appears to be near the end of its bloom, but I was pleased to find it because I thought there were none left in those woods at all.

[debunkshy]

Round-lobed Hepatica

Walking Iron, WI, 4-15-17

[clinicalherbalist]

Round lobed hepatica (Anemone americana), a memeber of the buttercup family. Its leaves are liver colored in winter, which can remind you that it is a liver herb in appalachian medicine. Like other members of the buttercup family, it contains alkaloids that are very bitter and provocative to the liver (and presumably poisonous in large doses). It’s a powerful laxative that causes movement of a lot of green bile. This is seldom what i am going for in my clinical practice, so i don’t use it much at all. But that sort of drastic remedy used to be more in fashion than it is now. The little round leaves around it are partridgeberry (Mitchella repens), which is a gentle tonic for the endocrine system, especially in women. I use it pretty often. It is a woodland perrenial that is not cultivated, so it should only be gathered by people who are familiar with and can carefully monitor the population of the stand it is growing in. . . . . #leaves #plantmedicine #wildmedicine #earthmedicine #naturalremedy #herbalism #appalachia https://www.instagram.com/p/Btg6-y9Bqu8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19een3lrlxkvo