PlantFiles Pictures: Hepatica, Liverleaf, Liverwort, White Woodland Hepatica 'Alba' (Hepatica nobilis), 1 by Toxicodendron

Toxicodendron wrote:
Yes, the natives do, anyway. And the blooming is almost finished by the time the new leaves unfurl. It is one of the earliest wildflowers here. But it makes a lovely groundcover in shady moist spots. I just have one clump for now, but I have seen large growths of it in the bottomlands and around waterways. Here is the way it looked a week before: only last year's dead leaves to back up the blooms.