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California False-hellebore is a robust, herbaceous perennial with solitary, unbranched stems that are 1-2 m high and arising from thick rhizomes. The numerous, alternate, broadly elliptic, sessile leaves are 2-3 dm long, and they have entire margins and parallel veins and sheath the stem at the base. Foliage is glabrous below, with the stem becoming densely short-hairy above. The nearly sessile ...

Herb, perennial, with arching to erect stems 15-50 cm tall, arising from rhizomes. Leaves simple, 4-15 x 1-4 cm, sessile, lance-shaped tapering to a tip, alternate, arranged on either side of the stem. Flowers arranged in a raceme, terminal; sepals and petals alike, 6, white. Fruit a berry, greenish with black stripes; seeds 1-2. Source: Encyclopedia of Life