Hepatica americana(DC.) Ker Gawl.

round-lobed hepatica

WFO wfo-0000719909 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Hepatica americana, photographed by jyoung2399
fig. a jyoung2399, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205639481
Hepatica americana, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. b Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205647962
Hepatica americana, photographed by Larry Jensen
fig. c Larry Jensen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202676572
Hepatica americana, photographed by M. Squire
fig. d M. Squire, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198753143
Hepatica americana, photographed by Mirko Schoenitz
fig. e Mirko Schoenitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201309243
Hepatica americana, photographed by Alina Martin
fig. f Alina Martin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198505356
Hepatica americana, photographed by John Kees
fig. g John Kees, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198490175
Hepatica americana, photographed by crlevy
fig. h crlevy, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201642358

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Flowering n = 3,401 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 3,401 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 americana (DC.) H.Hara
  • Anemonoides americana (L.) Holub
  • Hepatica americana f. cahnae Farw.
  • Hepatica americana f. candida Fernald
  • Hepatica americana f. purpurea Farw.
  • Hepatica americana f. rhodantha Fernald
  • Hepatica americana var. maculata Farw.
  • Hepatica americana var. parviflora (Farw.) Farw.
  • Hepatica hepatica var. parviflora Farw.
  • Hepatica hepatica var. purpurea Farw.
  • Hepatica nobilis f. cahnae (Farw.) Steyerm.
  • Hepatica nobilis f. candida (Fernald) Steyerm.
  • Hepatica nobilis f. obtusa (Pursh) Beck
  • Hepatica nobilis f. purpurea (Farw.) Steyerm.
  • Hepatica nobilis f. rhodantha (Fernald) Steyerm.
  • Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa (Pursh) Steyerm.
  • Hepatica triloba var. americana DC.
  • Hepatica triloba var. obtusa Pursh

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.