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Veratrum nigrum - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Chebula, West-Sibiria, Russia; 8/2003 © Harald Volz

Veratrum nigrum - Developing inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Developing inflorescence; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 8/2012 © Julia Roeser

Veratrum nigrum - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 8/2012 © Julia Roeser

Veratrum nigrum - Infructescence - Click to enlarge!

Infructescence; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 8/2012 © Julia Roeser

Veratrum nigrum - Young plant in spring - Click to enlarge!

Young plant in spring; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 4/2015 © Julia Roeser

Veratrum nigrum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Botanical Garden Halle, Germany; 8/2012 © Julia Roeser

Dataset

Identifier: 147
Date of entry: 16.11.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Black False-helleborine, Black Hellebore

German: Schwarzer Germer

Mandarin: 藜芦 (li lu)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Liliopsida (392)

      Order: Liliales (106)

        Family: Liliaceae (37)(family description)

          Genus: Veratrum (2)

            Epithet: nigrum L. (4)

nigrum => black, blackness

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: purple

External links

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