| Scientific Name: | Helleborus foetidus |
| Common Name: | stinking hellebore |
| Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Spiraled, Leathery, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Distinctive smell, Digitate (palmate), Elliptic, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Green-yellow, Purple, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Follicle, Green, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, blade rounded and deeply lobed or divided into 7-10 narrowly elliptic leaflets, 5-15cm long x 0.5-2cm wide, margin serrate, glossy, pungent when crushed, petioles upright, thick and succulent; flowers drooping, cup-shaped, yellowish-green often with a purple edge to the five petal-like sepals in spring; fruit is an aggregate of 3(-5) wrinkled follicles. | |