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I propose rewriting / expanding and clarifying the above sentence. I agree that "False hellebore" is a peculiar name in that they do not resemble hellebores nor are they closely related to them, and their naming is a puzzle, (and is why I ended up on this page -- unsatisfied).
However, "corn lily" is the common name of the family to which this plant belongs, along with other plants such as "Beargrass" ( Xerophyllum) and " Deathcamas". Corn lily makes sense, as they grow and almost look like old-world millet and new-world maize -- both called "corn" at different times -- and if they do not resemble the showy large-flowered lilium, they definately look like many flowers more broadly clustered in the lily order which has only been subdivided as multiple families for around a century -- long after corn lily came into common name acceptance.
Thus, I propose adding "corn lily" to the common name here -- as described under Bear Grass -- and adding more discussion -- such as appears in the introduction to death camas, .
As a side note, while I'd hope to avoid a discussion as lengthy as Talk:Corn (disambiguation), I'd welcome a bit more interest in the suggestion, now ten years old, that there would be added a lily disambiguation page Talk:Lilium#2006