Hepatica

[RickR]

In my youth, I toyed with the possibility of breeding hepatica with our native specimens.
  After all, no one else was doing it, I naively thought.  (I was only 18 years old then.) 

Very glad I didn't go down that road...

You have so many beauties, Michael!

[Hoy]

In my youth, I toyed with the possibility of breeding hepatica with our native specimens.
  After all, no one else was doing it, I naively thought.  (I was only 18 years old then.) 

Very glad I didn't go down that road...

Rick, who knows, you could have made a fortune by now Think of the fabulous Japanese cultivars

[kalle-k.dk]

Hepatica acuta semi double Deep Blue

[Rimmer]

Hepatica actiloba with walking fern on moss covered dolomite in the wild in southern Ohio this weekend

[RickR]

Those pics could have been taken in southern Minnesota, too, complete with the moss and the Asplenium rhizophyllum.
Although I have to say, the hepatica is exceptionally richly colored.

The walking fern, especially, seems to love moss covered limestone here.

[Hoy]

Hepatica can get the red coloured leaves if growing in sun and it still is cold. I have seen it here too but not often that much. The walking fern however, I've never seen - it doesn't exist here.

But I have never seen a hepatica as blue as kalle-k's!

[cohan]

Cool habitat shots!

[Lori S.]

Hepatica nobilis and H. transylvanica (x2), starting to bloom:
   

[cohan]

Nice! I can't wait till I get flowering plants, I do have a few seedlings, but don't think anything is mature yet..