HELLEBORUS Orientalis #1

Common Name: Lenten Rose, Christmas Rose

Lenten rose is a winter-blooming, broadleaf evergreen, clumping perennial in the Ranunculaceae or buttercup family. It typically grows 1 to 1.5 feet tall and equally as wide in a blushy, upright clump. The flowers are large, cup-shaped, nodding, and have overlapping petals. They appear in clusters of 1 to 4 blooms in colors varying from white, and pink, to light rose and rise above the foliage on a thick stem. Blooms appear in late winter and persist into spring. The foliage is dark green, glossy, and palmately divided. In warmer climates, it is evergreen, but deciduous in colder winter climates.