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Common names: Sharp-lobed Hepatica
Binomial name: Anemone acutiloba
Garden uses: flowers
Foliage: Basal, three-lobed, and hairy on the underside. Dead
leaves persist through winter
Flowers: white to pale blue
Wisconsin native range: found throughout Wisconsin in deciduous
woodlands.
The sharp-lobed hepatica is a spring ephemeral - a woodland plant
that flowers and sets seed shortly after the snow melts in the
spring. This kind of life-cycle allows the plant to capture the
sun early in the season before being cast into deep shade by the
emerging leaves of the deciduous forests in which it grows. Closely
related to the common hepatica (Anemone americana), it can be
distinguished from that species by the pointed lobes of its leaves.
Hepaticas do best in full to partial shade, as long as they get sun
in the springtime (i.e. grow in the shade of a tree, not on the
north side of a building). They like well-drained (but not
completely dry) soil conditions.
Hepatica blossoms
Hepatica flowers and newly-unfurled leaves
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