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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Lilies, Supplejacks, and Allies
  6. Herb-Paris, False Hellebores, Trilliums and Allies
  7. Melanthieae
  8. False Hellebores

genus

False Hellebores

Veratrum

Traits
Includes
4 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Green False Hellebore native
  • Corn Lily native
  • White Hellebore
  • Black False-hellebore
  • White False Hellebore present
  • Fringed False Hellebore native
  • Veratrum formosanum
  • Siskiyou False-hellebore native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native false hellebores All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Corn Lily Veratrum californicum caterpillars 3 flowers 4
  • Green False Hellebore Veratrum viride caterpillars 2 food 1 flowers 1
  • Fringed False Hellebore Veratrum fimbriatum caterpillars 2
  • Siskiyou False-hellebore Veratrum insolitum caterpillars 2

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