False hellebore doesn’t quite count as an early spring wildflower (it won’t bloom for another month or two) but it is definitely an indicator of both spring, and that most springlike of ecosystems, ...

It has many names. Its common names include false hellebore, false skunk cabbage and corn lily, but these tell us more about what it is not rather than what it is. Two scientific names, Veratrum ...

BURLINGTON — If you are outdoors foraging for wild leeks, also known as ramps (Allium tricoccum), health officials want you to be sure you don’t mistake the ramps for a poisonous lookalike plant ...

Foraging season has begun, and already, one Vermonter looking for ramps has been fooled by the plant's poisonous look-alike: false hellebore. Vermont Health Department officials are urging Vermonters ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Foraging could come with a dangerous mistake and wildlife leaders are asking you to beware. Wild leeks, also known as ramps, can look like a plant called false hellebore.

Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech trees and false hellebore (a common wetland plant). I was thinking about why they are so ...

Indian poke is steeped in Native American culture, once used for a variety of medicinal remedies. The root of this wildflower was used to treat chronic cough, constipation, stomach pain and high blood ...

Reported cases of serious illness due to people mistaking highly poisonous false hellebore (Veratrum viride) for a prized wild edible, ramps (Allium tricoccum), have more than doubled in Vermont over ...

On warm spring afternoons in southern Maine, the marshes and swamps are alive with the shrill call of peepers and jungle trill of tree frogs, pileated woodpeckers rip soft wood from rotting tree ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont officials are warning people who like to forage in the state for wild leeks, or ramps, to beware of a poisonous lookalike plant. The health department says young leaves of ...