Cardamine pratensis Flore Pleno

Cardamine pratensis 'Flora Pleno' is a natural mutation of meadow bittercress. It has a weakly stoloniferous stump. It produces rosettes of leaves divided into rounded lobes. This pretty perennial bears short stems of soft lilac-pink double flowers in spring. Ideal for moist, clayey soil.

The original species used to cover our entire garden in spring, alongside buttercups and dandelions. Decorative at the edge of a stream, in a light and moist understory.

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.