About
Cardamine glanduligera is a deciduous perennial that thrives in shaded areas. It features mid-green, deeply divided leaves with serrated edges. In the spring, it produces nodding flowers that display a purple-blue hue, rising above the foliage.
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, Neutral, Alkaline
- Soil moisture
- Moist but well-drained
- Aspect
- East-facing, North-facing, West-facing
- Exposure
- Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H4
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
- C & E Europe
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow in full or partial shade in moist soil, rich in organic matter. Spreads freely by small bulbils (immature bulbs) produced in the leaf joints, so site carefully. Remove these before they drop to prevent unwanted seedlings.
- Pruning
- No pruning required
- Propagation
- Sow bulbils (immature bulbs produced on stems) in a containers in a cold frame in late spring or early summer. Propagate by seed sown in situ or in pots a cold frame in spring, or as soon as ripe. Propagate by division after flowering in late spring or early summer.
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to flea beetles and aphids
- Disease resistance
- Generally disease-free