H e l l e b o r e s ⚔️

These only flower in midwinter, and some of them have green or black flowers.

In other news I’ve just found out they are in the same family as buttercups, which I have a weird relationship with as they’re highly effective boggy soil invaders around here, but I’ve come to respect them for their strategy (which includes having extremely charming flowers). The botanical family name is from ‘little frog’ in Latin.