Description
This Corydalis has a fern-like appearance and upright, long spikes of small, yellow flowers with a maroon lip, followed by contorted, snake-like seed pods. It will keep an evergreen leaf rosette, which takes a reddish hue in late summer/fall.
It is always a wonder how come such a fleshy ‘thing’ can withstand the harsh winter colds, even in the snowless periods.
The foliage is its best quality, especially that it doesn’t go dormant; throughout the season provides great texture and backgrounds for other plants; see the gallery pictures with Ratibida in late summer and later with fall Crocus. It is best to remove most of the flower stems (leave just a couple for seeds).
It will reseed around but don’t forget to always have few seedlings around ;) It behaves like a short lived perennial/biennial.
Germination: best with seeds sown fresh; the seeds formed in early summer will germinate right away and grow an overwintering leaf rosette; seeds sown later in the fall will germinate after a cold period.
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