liverwort vs hepatica

liverwort and hepatica both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
liverwort	Yes	No	No	No
hepatica	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hepatica is a hyponym of liverwort; that is, hepatica is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than liverwort:

liverwort: any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
hepatica: a common liverwort

Other hyponyms of liverwort include hornwort, leafy liverwort, scale moss, Marchantia polymorpha.

liverwort (noun)	hepatica (noun)
any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses	any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions
	a common liverwort