Hepatica Mill.

Herbs, perennial, similar to Anemone in habit, but differing chiefly in possessing a calyx-like involucre or 3 leaves close to the flower. Leaves 3 - 5-lobed, with entire or crenate-dentate lobes. Flowers subtended by a calyx-like involucre of 3 small entire bracts.

Temperate Eurasia to W. Himalayas, ca 10 species; one in India.

List of Lower Taxa