Helleborus foetidus

A great textural and foliage plant with cute apple green cupped flowers.

Helleborus foetidus has small, creamy green flowers with burgundy edges held in clusters at the top of the stems in late winter. The textural, leathery, deeply cut foliage is evergreen providing excellent foliage 12 months of the year. From western, central and southern Europe. Pay no attention to its common name. It never smells unless you mince up its foliage and what gardener would want to put it in the Cuisinart! Plant in full to part sun. Deer resistant.

Common Name:  Stinking Hellebore

Family:  Ranunculaceae (The Buttercup Family)

Zone Hardiness:  5-10

Light:  Full Sun Part Sun

Height:  12-24"

Width:  12-24"

Primary Bloom Colour:  Green

Secondary Bloom Colour:  Burgundy

Class:  Evergreen

Type:  Perennial

Bloom Time:  Late Winter - Early Spring

Soil Moisture:  Average

Stem Colour:  

Fragrance:  No

Berries:  

Benefits:  

Deer Resistant:  Unknown

BC Native:  No

Native Habitat:  Woodland, scrub, open rocky areas to around 6000 feet.

Award:  AGM GPP

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