Family:
Ranunculaceae
Common Name(s):
Hepatica
Synonyms:
Hepatica acutiloba
Flowering Time:
April to May
Fruit/Seed Maturation Sign:
Fruits are green and plump; should separate easily from stem
Fruit/Seed Collection Dates:
Mid to late May
Seed Cleaning:
None required
Storage:
Intolerant of dry storage (Cullina 2000)
Restoration Potential:
Low
Notes
Of 240 seeds planted in a central Iowa demographic study, 64 germinated and 12 plants survivied to year 5; 9 flowered after an average of 5 years (Mabry 2023).
Mature transplants added to a woodland degraded by cattle grazing in Wisconin were "well established" and had reproduced within the eight years that the plants were monitored, but the authors did not report number of years to reproduction (Ellarson and Craven 1982) .
Ant dispersed; seed output low (Barkely 1986, Gleason and Cronquist 1991).
Roots fibrous, branched (Runkel and Bull 2009); low vegetative spread (Barkely 1986, Gleason and Cronquist 1991).
