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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: 12 to 36 inches
Leaves: Deciduous
Broadleaf
Fruit: Other: Oval to ellipsoid, hairy to hairless green capsules with brownish vertical lines.
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Bi-Color: Greenish flowers tinged with purple
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Will Naturalize
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Pollinators: Wasps

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Common names
  • Broad-Leaved Helleborine
  • Eastern Helleborine
  • Weed Orchid
  • Ealabairin
  • Common Helleborine

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Location: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date: 2023-10-05
Tentative ID.
Location: Caribou Maine
Date: August 2018
Location: Caribou Maine
Date: June 2018
Location: Merrillville, IN
Date: 2024-07-06
Been pulling this out of my flower garden for years. It flowered
Location: Fleetville, Lackawanna County, Pa
Date: July 29. 2022
Uploaded by Ursula
Uploaded by Ursula
Location: Caribou Maine
Date: August 2018
Location: Fleetville, Pa, getting ready to bloom.
Date: 2023-07-04
Location: Fleetville, Lackawanna County, Pa
Date: July 29. 2022
Location: Botanical Garden Berlin
Date: 2017-10-25
Uploaded by Ursula
Location: Riverview, Robson, B.C.
Date: 2009-10-04
 3:48 pm. Seed pods in October. Growing wild in my woodland.
Location: Sandy, Utah, United States
Date: 2018-05-26
Location: Sandy, Utah, United States
Date: 2018-05-26
Location: Sandy, Utah, United States
Date: 2018-05-26
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2015-07-12
My yard, Zone 6
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2015-07-12
My yard, zone 6

Date: August
credit: John Cameron
Uploaded by Ursula
Uploaded by Ursula
Uploaded by Ursula
Location: Fleetville, Pa 
Date: 2024-07-19
first pink bloom in this location
Location: Fleetville, Pa
Date: 2024-07-19
Uploaded by Ursula
Location: Gorsselse heide
Date: 2021-08-12
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2015-07-12
My yard, zone 6
Location: Dearborn Heights, MI
Date: 2015-07-12
My yard, zone 6
Uploaded by Ursula
Comments:
  • Posted by janelp_lee (Toronto, Ontario - Zone 6a) on Jan 28, 2020 8:41 PM concerning plant:
    Broad-Leaved Helleborine (Epipactis helleborine) is now common in Toronto residents' gardens. This invasive native orchid self-seeds successfully, although the seedlings do not flower for the first 1-3 years.

    When the plant is older, taller flower stems emerge and each flower stem bears many flowers. They are noticeable only when they are growing under a big tree canopy instead of by themselves in shade.

    They don't like full sun and they root quite deeply under the tree canopy.

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