black false hellebore

Veratrum nigrum is a perennial flowering plant in the Melanthiaceae family. It is commonly called black false hellebore and is found across a wide range of regions in Eurasia. Despite its name, it is not closely related to the true hellebores. The species was first described in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus. It is distributed in areas such as SE, NO, Albania, Altay, Amur, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Hungary, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, and Italy.