The Round-lobed Hepatica is a native, perennial wildflower in Wisconsin. It grows four to six inches tall. Its flowers comes in white, pink and lavender. The flowers have five to nine petal-like sepals with three green bracts underneath. Its flowers emerge even before its own leaves, so you can sometimes see a forest floor with hundreds of clusters of 1/2 to one-inch-wide flowers peeking out. It has fuzzy, four to six-inch stems. The three-lobed, basal leaves are evergreen, green in spring and summer, turning burgundy in fall and winter. The leaves in the photo above are still from the previous year. This Hepatica survives in dry or moist, humus soil in shade or part shade in woodlands and woodland edges. (EW)