| Taxon | Veratrum viride |
| group | Monocots |
| Family | Melanthiaceae |
| Family common name(s) | false hellebore; bunchflower |
| Genus common name(s) | veratrum; false-hellebore; false hellebore; falsehellebore; false-hellobore; false hellobore |
| Species common name(s) | green false-hellebore; green false hellebore; green falsehellebore; green corn-lily; green corn lily; green skunk-cabbage; green skunk cabbage; true green veratrum; true veratrum; American false-hellebore; American false hellebore; American white hellebore; American hellebore; eastern false-hellebore; eastern false hellebore; swamp hellebore; branch eliber |
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| Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | Eschscholtz's false-hellebore [var. eschscholzianum]; Eschscholtz's false hellebore [var. eschscholzianum]; Eschscholtz's falsehellebore [var. eschscholzianum]; Eschscholtz false-hellebore [var. eschscholzianum]; Eschscholtz false hellebore [var. eschscholzianum]; Eschscholtz falsehellebore [var. eschscholzianum]; showy false hellebore [var. eschscholzianum] |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | green veratrum, white false-hellebore, white false hellebore are applied to multiple Veratrum taxa; green hellebore, skunk-cabbage, skunk cabbage, skunkcabbage, corn lily, corn-lily, cornlily, hellebore, elever, eliber, poke-root, poke root are applied to taxa in multiple families |
| Common name(s), rejected | not recommended: Indian hellebore, Indian poke |
| Notes | Eschscholtz, American are proper names, so upper case preferable; Escholtz is an error |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Liliaceae s.l.; var. eschscholzianum (Roem. & Schult.) Breitung |
