New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Developing ovaries, the stigmas have now fallen off.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (30/03/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Developing ovaries, the stigmas have now fallen off.

New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Not fully in flower yet. The outer sepals will spread out as the petals widen when they come into full flower.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (18/02/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Not fully in flower yet. The outer sepals will spread out as the petals widen when they come into full flower.

New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Highly distinctive by this yellowy-green colour of the flowering parts of the plant. The leaves in the background a dark green. Not Green Hellebore as that has flowers that are the same colour as the leaves and the whole plant is greener.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (18/02/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Highly distinctive by this yellowy-green colour of the flowering parts of the plant. The leaves in the background a dark green. Not Green Hellebore as that has flowers that are the same colour as the leaves and the whole plant is greener.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (18/02/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Stigmas atop their rather fat styles.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (18/02/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. The petals are glandular-hairy.

New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. The white things above the ovaries are spent anther stamens. This one has 3 ovaries with stigmas still attached. I thought they normally only had 2.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (18/02/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. The white things above the ovaries are spent anther stamens. This one has 3 ovaries with stigmas still attached. I thought they normally only had 2.

New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Developing ovaries with stigmas still attached, and a couple of spent stamens. They are glandular hairy.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (18/02/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Developing ovaries with stigmas still attached, and a couple of spent stamens. They are glandular hairy.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (18/02/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. It is a weird, rather alien-looking plant.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (30/03/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (30/03/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Anthers surrounding the two ovaries.

New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Anthers and the two fat ovaries with stigmas out of focus in this image.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (30/03/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Anthers and the two fat ovaries with stigmas out of focus in this image.

New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Unlike the flowering parts of the plant, the leaves are a dark rather glossy green.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (18/02/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Unlike the flowering parts of the plant, the leaves are a dark rather glossy green.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (18/02/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield. Serrated edged leaves.

Stinking Hellebore / Setter-Wort (Helleborus foetidus) (18/02/2024) New Hall Lane, Small Dole, Henfield.