About Veratrum insolitum Jeps.
Veratrum insolitum Jeps. is a species of false hellebore, a plant group closely related to lilies. Its common name is Siskiyou false hellebore. This species is native to the northwestern United States, occurring in Klickitat County, Washington, western Oregon, and northwestern California as far south as Trinity County. It is a stout, hollow-stemmed perennial that grows from a thick rhizome. It grows in the clay soils of wet evergreen forests. The plant grows erect with a shape similar to a cornstalk. It produces several large green elliptical leaves, which decrease in size as you move higher up its grayish stem. It bears a large panicle inflorescence densely packed with many off-white hairy flowers, each measuring just under a centimeter wide. Each flower has six fringed tepals and six stout stamens, each of which holds a club-shaped yellow anther. Its fruit is a capsule 2 to 3 centimeters long that contains large winged seeds.
