About
Cardamine enneaphyllos is a perennial plant that thrives in shady environments, growing from rhizomatous roots. In spring, it produces mid-green foliage, featuring divided leaves with four to six serrated leaflets. This is followed by nodding flowers that are either white or pale yellow, rising above the leaves.
About the genus
Cardamine consists of herbaceous perennials characterized by their straightforward, palmately or pinnately divided foliage. In spring or summer, they produce short racemes bearing flowers with four petals, which can be white, yellow, pink, or purplish in hue.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Full shade, Partial shade
- Soil type
- Chalk, Clay, Loam
- Soil pH
- Acid, Alkaline, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Moist but well-drained
- Aspect
- East-facing, North-facing, West-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H5
Plant details
- Plant type
- Herbaceous Perennial
- Habit
- Spreading branched
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Height
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Spread
- 0.5-1 metres
- Time to full height
- 2-5 years
- Suggested uses
- Cottage and informal garden
- Native to
- SE Europe
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow in soil moist soil, rich in organic matter, in full or partial shade.
- Pruning
- No pruning required
- Propagation
- Propagate from seed sown in containers in spring or autumn. Propagate by division after flowering in late spring/early summer.
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to flea beetles and aphids
- Disease resistance
- Generally disease-free