Hepatica nobilis (Liverleaf)

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Hepatica nobilis, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg — fig. a Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204944344

Hepatica nobilis, photographed by Tim Johnson — fig. b Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205159886

Hepatica nobilis, photographed by Mattia Menchetti — fig. c Mattia Menchetti, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204875301

Hepatica nobilis, photographed by Vladimír Fuka — fig. d Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204200188

Hepatica nobilis, photographed by Thorsten Hackbarth — fig. e Thorsten Hackbarth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201312878

Hepatica nobilis, photographed by Jason Grant — fig. f Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202772134

Hepatica nobilis, photographed by Pavel Kacl — fig. g Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201307708

Hepatica nobilis, photographed by Rhonda Ridley — fig. h Rhonda Ridley, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201602761

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Flowering n = 6,392 observations

163

661

2583

2345

548

Flowering observations of Hepatica nobilis by month
Month	Observations
Jan	163
Feb	661
Mar	2583
Apr	2345
May	548
Jun	24
Jul	2
Aug	2
Sep	1
Oct	7
Nov	20
Dec	36

Peak flowering in Mar, from 6,392 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 9 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 angulosa Lam.
Anemone hepatica L.
Anemone hepatica var. acutiuscula Pritz.
Anemone praecox Salisb.
Anemone triloba Stokes
Hepatica anemonoides Vest
Hepatica angulosa DC.
Hepatica hepatica H.Karst.
Hepatica triloba Chaix

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
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.