A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.
A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.
An ancient plant, one that colonised the land fairly early on in the history of plants on land. It has an alternation of generation reproductive style, with the gametophyte being the dominant generation. Water is needed for reproduction, and now these plants are generally confined to damp areas such as stream edges, flowerpots and marsh. They do not have vascular tissue, and lack true roots.
A bryophyte belonging to the class Hepaticae. These are primitive photosynthetic plants. Liverworts have one of two forms: thalloid liverworts are strap-shaped while leafy liverworts have a "stem-and-leaf" form similar to mosses.
can refer to several plants, all thought beneficial to the liver. Agrimony is one, stone liverwort ( Marchantia polymorpha) is another, Anemone triloba is a third, dog lichen ( Peltigera canina) a fourth. Ellis does not specify.
any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
a primitive green, moss-like slime which grows on the trunks of woody shrubs in higher rainfall forest areas all over the world)
Liverwort is a green, moss-like plant belonging to the family Hepaticae. This small, simple plant lives in moist, shady areas and has wide, flat leaves that lie close to the ground. Liverworts reproduce with spores.