Melanthiaceae
False hellebore
Veratrum nigrum
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Genus
- Veratrum
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Common names
By language (23)
- Arabic
- خربوق أسود
- arz
- فيراتروم نيجروم
- Bulgarian
- Черна чемерика
- Catalan
- Hellèbor negre fals
- Chinese
- 藜芦, 藜蘆, 山葱, 黑藜芦, 黑花山白菜
- Croatian
- Crna čemerika
- Czech
- Kýchavice černá
- Dutch
- Zwarte nieswortel
- English
- False hellebore, Black false hellebore, Black-hellebore
- Finnish
- Tummapärskäjuuri
- French
- Vérâtre noir, Vératre noir
- German
- Schwarzer Germer
- hsb
- Čorna kichawa
- Hungarian
- Fekete zászpa
- Italian
- Veratro nero
- lzh
- 藜蘆
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Mørk nyserot
- os
- Сау кæндыс
- Persian
- وراتروم نیگروم
- Polish
- Ciemiężyca czarna, Ciemierzyca czarna
- Russian
- Чемерица чёрная
- Slovenian
- Črna čmerika
- Swedish
- Svart nysrot
Synonyms
- Helonias nigra (L.) Ker Gawl.
- Melanthium nigrum (L.) Thunb.
- Veratrum bracteatum Batalin
- Veratrum nigrum subsp. ussuriense (O.Loes.) Vorosch.
- Veratrum nigrum var. microcarpum Loes.
- Veratrum nigrum var. ussuriense O.Loes.
- Veratrum purpureum Salisb.
- Veratrum ussuriense (O.Loes.) Nakai
Flowers
- In flower
- July to August (from 54 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Vincenzo Lattanzi, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Joss Carr, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: xulescu_g, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Agnieszka Kwiecień, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Bobo-X, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Valérie75 assumed, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Liubov Ilminska, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Yehor Yatsiuk, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: peganum from Henfield, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Vachovec1, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.