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Plants False Hellebore  False Hellebore sends fat green shoots up through dead dry leaves of last year as soon as the sun and temperatures of late April and early May warm the soils in wet thickets, roadside ditches, along streams and in wet meadows. Plants grow rapidly and the large coarse ribbed leaves which clasp the stem present the first real green of the new season before trees leaf out. Also known as Indian Poke or Poke by farmers, the plant has a poisonous root, and farmers like to prevent young cows from eating the tempting green plants. Some dairy farmers say that a mature cow with calves will guide the younger animals away from stands of False Hellebore.This member of the lily family plant grows 2’ – 6’ tall by early summer. Then mature plants produce spikes of greenish-yellow non-showy flowers. By mid-summer, when many other wildflowers are just beginning to bloom, False Hellebore is starting to wither and dies back to the root to wait until the next early Spring season. - Deborah Benjamin This page was last updated on February 15, 2006 |
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