Helleborus orientalis️

Helleborus is a late winter/early spring blooming plant with large, thick, toothed, multi-lobed semi-evergreen foliage. In Central New York, tattered foliage can be cut back in fall or late winter when snow has melted. Clumps will spread slowly and will also prolifically self-seed. However, seedlings are plants with unpredictable bloom colors, usually reverting to white or pale green. There are more intensely colored cultivars. ‘Red Racer’ has large burgundy flowers, and is reportedly less winter-hardy than the species. Helleborus is toxic and are therefore quite resistant to deer browsing.