Sharpe-lobed Hepatic (Hepatica acutiloba)


 Sharp-lobed Hepatica is a perennial wildflower in Wisconsin. It is small, four to six inches tall. Its flowers have five to nine petal-like sepals that range in color. They come in white, pink and purple. There are three bracts underneath each flower. The one inch flowers sit on a single hairy, sometimes drooping, stem. Each basal leaf has three sharply pointed lobes rising from a thin hairy stalk. It grows in the dry shade of deciduous woodlands. (EW)