Cardamine bulbifera

Cardamine bulbifera is a pretty perennial with small clusters of light pink-lilac flowers. It has a running stump. It produces upright stems with narrow leaves. Dark blackish bulblets appear in the axils of the leaves, which produce new plants when planted.

Cardamine, (syn. Dentaria), have good and bad plants among them. The worst ones are in the form of Cardamine hirsuta, a little annual pest with white flowers whose seed capsules burst in your fingers if you have waited too long to weed. The best among the species we offer are perennials. They are very cold resistant and thrive in heavy and moist soils. They are among the first to bloom alongside daffodils, daisies, lungworts, and Omphalodes. They will grow in moist, clayey and humus-bearing soil, in the sun or preferably in partial shade. Their foliage disappears quite early in the season, but they are not dead: it's their way of protecting themselves against summer heat and drought. The stumps emit slowly spreading stolons or underground rhizomes, without becoming invasive.