Veratrum nigrum
Common Name: 'Black false hellebore'AGM. This is a dramatic plant for a shady border with large, open spikes of tiny dark star-shaped, reddish-brown flowers rising above a dense clump of highly attarctive broad, pleated leaves. Aug-Sep. H90cm S60cm.
Care Instructions
Grow in a moist, but well-drained preferably humus-rich soil in sun or partial shade out of the wind.