Helleborus caucasicus. Морозник кавказький.

Helleborus caucasicus. 

Морозник кавказький

Winter-, spring-flowering perennial herb with short, creeping, branched rhizome. In recent years it enjoyed great popularity, and is grown as an ornamental herb. Gardeners are valued for their high frost resistance and evergreen foliage. In medicine it is used mainly as a cardiotonic.

The plant is poisonous!

Helleborus caucasicus - the amazing beauty of the plant, which was popular in the Middle Ages: it was believed that hellebore protects against witchcraft, the evil eye and evil spirits, which is why it planted near the entrance to the house or yard.

Enough often there are thickets of hellebore and in nature - on the fringes of mountain deciduous forests in Central Europe, the Mediterranean and Western Asia.

 Information about the book of flower - Complete Atlas of medicinal plants (MM Safonov, 2005), - Photo by me. 

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