Description
This rarely seen in cultivation, lovely Cardamine (formerly Dentaria) has large cream flowers in nodding racemes in early spring. An inhabitant of European woods, with large, drooping cream flowers in early spring; it grows from a rhizomes and the stems have a whorl of 3 leaves with 9 leaflets with serrated edges, hence the common name. It becomes dormant after setting seeds.
A lovely addition to the woodland garden, the rarity I suppose is due to the difficulty to catch the seeds (the fruit, a silique, splits suddenly to release the seeds at maturity).
Germination: best when sowed in the summer fresh (warm/cold cycles of stratification required). Seeds sown in late fall/winter it will germinate in the second spring after sowing and in lower percentage.
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