white false hellebore

V. album is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial 1.8-2m high with 10-12 pleated, oblong to elliptic basal leaves, up to 30cm long and 15cm wide, an upright stem with only a few stem leaves, and branched heads up to 60cm long of star-shaped pale green or white flowers, each 1.5-2.5cm across, in early summer and around midsummer