Appearance
The six sepals are bright yellow and petaloid and the petals are in the form of tubular nectaries. There are numerous stamens and usually six unfused carpels. The fruit are follicles each containing several seeds. All parts of the plant are poisonous when consumed by humans.
Naming
The Latin specific epithet ''hyemalis'' means "winter-flowering".
Habitat
As a spring ephemeral plant, its life cycle exploits the deciduous woodland canopy, flowering at the time of maximum sunlight reaching the forest floor, then completely dying back to its underground tuber after flowering.References:
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