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| This plant was given to Serendipity Ranch in memory of Mary Butler. Mary always said she had gotten the original plant from George Washington's home, Mount Vernon. | Godshaw Hill Tryon, North Carolina |
Common Name: Lenten Rose or Hellebore
Scientific Name: Helleborus orientalis
Family: Ranunculaceae
Serendipity Ranch
Columbus, North Carolina
March 15, 2002
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| This plant was given to Serendipity Ranch in memory of Mary Butler. Mary always said she had gotten the original plant from George Washington's home, Mount Vernon. | Godshaw Hill Tryon, North Carolina |
Basal leaves with five to eleven sharply toothed leaflets. Blooms in late winter and continues into spring. Flowering stems branched, with leaflike bracts at branching points and beneath flowers. Blossoms are white, greenish, purplish, or rose, often spotted or splashed with deep purple. Lenten rose is often mistakenly sold as "Christmas rose", but it differs from true Christmas rose in flower color and in having many small teeth on leaflets. Self-sows freely. Late winter into spring [Bender, Steve, Southern Living Garden Book, The. Oxmoor House, Inc., Book Division of Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, 1998]
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