#forest flora

• Common hazel — A native deciduous shrub in the family Betulaceae (Corylus avellana), growing up to 5-6 meters tall, featuring stems branched from the base, subround, serrated leaves, and unisexual flowers (male catkins and reduced female flowers); it produces edible achene-type nuts (hazelnuts), globose or ovoid, partially enclosed in a fringed foliar involucre.
• Sharp-lobed hepatica — A scientific synonymous name for Hepatica acutiloba (or Hepatica nobilis var. acuta), a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to eastern North America. It is recognized by its characteristic leaves with three sharp-pointed lobes and early spring flowers with shades ranging from white and pink to pale blue, developing in mature forests and calcareous soils.
• Wood anemone — A species of perennial herbaceous plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the temperate forests of Europe and Asia. Commonly known as the wood anemone, it grows in early spring, forming dense carpets before trees open their canopy. The plant features a horizontal underground rhizome, deeply divided trifoliate leaves, and a single solitary flower, pure white or slightly pinkish, with numerous yellow stamens in the center.
• Yellow wood anemone — A species of perennial herbaceous plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the temperate forests of Europe and Western Asia. Commonly known as the yellow wood anemone, this spring ephemeral plant grows rapidly in shaded and moist deciduous woodlands, standing out due to its horizontal rhizome, deeply divided cauline leaves, and its solitary or paired bright golden-yellow flowers.
• Ardisia malouiana — A rare species of perennial evergreen shrub in the family Primulaceae (subfamily Myrsinoideae), characteristic of humid tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia. In a structural-botanical sense, this exotic species is distinguished by leathery, lanceolate leaves with finely undulated margins, axillary inflorescences composed of small, star-shaped, pinkish-white flowers, and bright red spherical berry-like drupes that serve as an important trophic resource for local birds.
• Canadian wild ginger — The scientific name of the Canadian wild ginger, a perennial herbaceous plant native to the forests of eastern North America, characterized by velvety kidney-shaped leaves and a single brownish flower hidden at the base of the stem. Its root has an aromatic scent similar to true ginger and was historically used in indigenous traditional medicine, although it contains aristolochic acid, a nephrotoxic substance.
• Long-tailed wild ginger — The scientific name of the British Columbia wild ginger or long-tailed wild ginger, a perennial plant species in the Aristolochiaceae family, native to the moist, forested regions of western North America. It is structurally distinguished by its unique reddish-brown flowers, whose sepals extend into very long, narrow tail-like lobes.
• Hartweg's wild ginger — The scientific name of an endemic species of wild ginger native to western North America, particularly the Sierra Nevada mountains and forested regions of California and Oregon. The plant stands out for its large, cordate leaves decorated with a marbled pattern of silver lines on a dark green background, valued as an ornamental shade plant.
• Yellow anemone — A popular Romanian name given to an herbaceous plant in the buttercup family (Anemone ranunculoides), characterized by solitary, golden-yellow flowers blooming early in spring within deciduous forests; a small plant with a creeping rhizome whose leaves vaguely resemble chervil, hence the diminutive derivation of its common name.