Description
This is an evergreen perennial plant with abundant penny-cress like white flowers in early spring. In our region it flowers in the same time with Hepatica americana to get an idea. A tough plant for dry shade which emerges from the snow with green leaves (they may require a bit of cleaning), otherwise worry free. It remains in a clump (not rhizomatous). If the Latin name sounds too difficult, call it Caucasian penny-cress. I noticed few people are calling it so.
In the words of the renown Beth Chatto the description of this species sounds much better: “I have planted a splendid relative (of cardamine) among the shrubs, where, for a month at least, the frothy white flowers look like drifts of snow against the brown leaf litter.”
Germination: may be the reason we don’t see it more often, plus the fact that the seeds pods are ‘explosive’. A few years ago I received a small batch of wild collected seeds; from it I obtained exactly one plant! Other people shared the same experience regarding the seeds germination. They need to be sown fresh in order to germinate; this also imply a requirement of a warm/moist cycle followed by a cold/moist one (winter).
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