Veratrum fimbriatum
Deadly poisonous — never eat any part of it.
If someone has eaten it, call emergency services or your poison control centre.
About
Veratrum fimbriatum is an uncommon species of false hellebore, a type of plant closely related to the lily. Its common names are fringed false hellebore and fringed corn lily. It is endemic to California where it is a rare resident of the northern coastal scrub plant communities of Mendocino and Sonoma Counties. This flowering plant is a stout, hollow-stemmed perennial growing from a thick rhizome. The erect flowering plant bears several large, flat, green leaves near the base of the green stem. The large panicle inflorescence is packed with many distinctive, lacy-fringed flowers each up to a centimeter wide. The flower bud is club-shaped before it opens into a bloom of six frilly tepals, each of which bears two bright green or gold glands. The ovary and sepals extend straight outward as one thick stalk. The fruit is an oval-shaped capsule just under a centimeter long containing the seeds.
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Veratrum fimbriatum
- Slug
- veratrum-fimbriatum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Genus
- Veratrum
- Species
- fimbriatum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 5
- Data completeness
- 43
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