Liverwort
Botanical name: Hepatica
Liverwort
Botanical name: Hepatica
Description
Liverwort is a genus of herbaceous perennials in the buttercup family, native to central and northern Europe, Asia and eastern North America. Bisexual flowers with pink, purple, blue, or white sepals and three green bracts appear singly on hairy stems from late winter to spring. The leaves are basal, leathery, and usually three-lobed, remaining over winter. 
Species of Liverwort
Hepatica nobilis var. asiatica
Hepatica nobilis var. asiatica is a variety of the common hepatica (Hepatica nobilis). It's a flowering plant that inhabits forests and grassy slopes. It produces pink to purple, anemone-like pollen-producing flowers that don't produce nectar but are often cultivated in gardens.
Roundlobe Hepatica
Roundlobe Hepatica, (Hepatica nobilis var. obtusa) is also called mouse-ears or liverleaf. This plant gets its nicknames from the small basal leaves whose shape resembles that of a liver or a mouse's ear. It loves to ramble along the ground in dry woodlands and rocky slopes. Hepatica has been used ornamentally in Japan since the 18th century, where it has been cultivated to include double-flowering varieties.
Sharplobe hepatica
Sharplobe hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. acuta) is a low-growing flowering plant that inhabits chalky soils in eastern and central North America. It prefers open deciduous forests. The flowers that bloom in early or mid-spring can be white, purple, or pink.
Liverwort
Liverwort (*Hepatica nobilis*) is in the same family as the buttercup flower and is native to North America, Central and Northern Europe, and Asia. Its common name of "liverwort" is derived from the fact that the three-lobed leaf resembles a human liver in appearance. This plant is poisonous in high doses, so your actual liver won't appreciate it! Oddly, the plant produces pollen but not nectar - sometimes confusing bees!
Hepatica transsilvanica
Hepatica transsilvanica is a genus of herbaceous perennials in the buttercup family, native to central and northern Europe, Asia and eastern North America. Bisexual flowers with pink, purple, blue, or white sepals and three green bracts appear singly on hairy stems from late winter to spring. The leaves are basal, leathery, and usually three-lobed, remaining over winter.
Scientific Classification
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