#19 100 Tiny Beautiful things
One of the first woodland wildflowers to appear is the sweet, white Hepatica, seemingly growing out of last year’s debris. Here in Ontario we see the first blossoms in late April and it often blooms until June.
Hepatica is an herbaceous, native, medicinal, perennial in the Buttercup family. It has been used for centuries to treat liver ailments, including cirrhosis, jaundice, fatty liver disease and hepatitis.
Whenever I’m wandering in the woods, if I stumble across a jaunty wee Hepatica, it never fails to make me smile which is why it is today’s one tiny beautiful thing.
Hepatica
(Hepatica acutiloba DC)
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