Rock garden plants Helleborus  foetidus L.   
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FamilyRANUNCULACEAE
Genus species var.Helleborus  foetidus L. 
Territory EUROPE
thickets and woods
Altitude200-1800m
Description unpleasantly smelling, leaves petiolate, palmatipinnate, with 7-11 narrowly lanceolate, dentate segments, uppermost leaves entire, flowers campanulate, 10-30mm, in raceme
Size30-50cm
Colorpale green
Bloomwinter, spring
Ca+
Typetuft, fl. stem erect
Cultivationcold, shady site with a humous, moist soil
Propagationseed in winter, germ. 3-12 months, 16-18°C
careful division after flowering and in early fall
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