270 BLUE AND PURPLE 



LIVERLEAF; HEPATICA: LIVERWORT: 

 Round-lobed or Kidney Liverleaf : Noble Liver- 

 wort: Squirrel Cup. Hepdtica triloba. 

 Crowfoot Family. Mch. — May. 

 Found in open woods. Nova Scotia to Flor- 

 ida, Missouri and Minnesota. 

 Flowers — Variable in color, blue-violet to white, 

 6—12 divisions, borne on hairy stems 

 4-6 inches high. 

 Leaves — From the root, with 3 rounded lobes, 

 green or reddish purple, new leaves 

 appearing after the flowers bloom. 



SHARP-LOBED LIVERLEAF: H. acutiloba. 

 Differs from the preceding in that the 3 leaf- 

 lets just beneath the flower, and lobes of the 

 leaves are more acute at the tips. Leaves 

 sometimes 5-lobed. More common westward. 



