Curiosity Week 8 - Lenten Rose (Helleborus orientalis)

 

For my curiosity plant this week I found this little flowering plant behind Smith hall in the Grieg Garden. The plant came up on iNaturalist as a Helleborus orientalis or the Lenten Rose from the Buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. After looking at the pictures, they come in a variety of colors and I tried to get a picture but it came out a little blurry but the one I found was a yellow/green color. They’re native to Greece and Turkey.

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