Hepatica acutilobaDC.

sharp-lobed hepatica

WFO wfo-0000719902 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Hepatica acutiloba, photographed by Larry Jensen
fig. a Larry Jensen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 197778016
Hepatica acutiloba, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. b Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199349321
Hepatica acutiloba, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. c Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199383758
Hepatica acutiloba, photographed by Henry "Nick" Robertson
fig. d Henry "Nick" Robertson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 198995541
Hepatica acutiloba, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. e Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199384891
Hepatica acutiloba, photographed by Henry "Nick" Robertson
fig. f Henry "Nick" Robertson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 198997460
Hepatica acutiloba, photographed by Katie Kucera
fig. g Katie Kucera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197613028

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Flowering n = 3,868 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 3,868 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 18 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anemone acuta Vail ex Britton
  • Anemone acutiloba Laws.
  • Anemone hepatica var. acuta (Pursh) Pritz.
  • Hepatica acuta Britton
  • Hepatica acutiloba f. albiflora Ralph Hoffm.
  • Hepatica acutiloba f. diversiloba Raymond
  • Hepatica acutiloba f. plena Fernald
  • Hepatica acutiloba f. rosea Ralph Hoffm.
  • Hepatica acutiloba var. variegata Farw.
  • Hepatica hepatica var. albiflora (R.Hoffm.) Farw.
  • Hepatica nobilis f. acutiloba Beck
  • Hepatica nobilis f. albiflora (Ralph Hoffm.) Steyerm.
  • Hepatica nobilis f. plena (Fernald) Steyerm.
  • Hepatica nobilis f. rosea (Ralph Hoffm.) Steyerm.
  • Hepatica nobilis var. acuta (Pursh) Steyerm.
  • Hepatica triloba var. acuta Pursh
  • Hepatica triloba var. acutiloba (DC.) R.Warner
  • Hepatica triloba var. acutiloba (DC.) Warne

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.