| Scientific Name: | Helleborus x hybridus |
| Common Name: | hybrid Lenten rose |
| Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded, Weeping |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Perennial border, Rock garden, Spring interest, Winter interest, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Lobed, Compound, Basal, Leathery, Heavily veined, Glabrous, Rugose, Obovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Yellow, Green, Purple, Pink, Red, Jan-Feb-Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Follicle, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Green, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Most 40-60cm tall; leaves basal, palmately compound, petioles 20-30cm long, leaflets 5-7, obovate,10-20 cm long x 4-7cm wide, leathery, venation heavy, margin serrate (some irregularly toothed), base entire; cyme Jan-Apr, flowers cup-shaped, 5 petal-like sepals, usually pendulous. | |