Native Canadian flowers for early spring
Stephen Westcott-Gratton enjoys two native Canadian flowers that appear in early spring – bloodroot and hepatica.
hepatica
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Hepaticas: harbingers of spring
What garden event signifies to you that spring has really, truly arrived in your part of the country?
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Sharp-leaf hepatica
I have a little cluster of sharp-leaf hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba, Zone 4) that blooms in a shady corner. These sweet little flowers are sometimes called spring beauty, and that seems a perfect name for their bright daisy-like faces with prominent anthers.
