Cardamine douglassii Southern Lady Perennial Plant of the Year The foliage can be removed

The foliage can be removed when it has turned brown and that is about it

with a lovely silver pattern on the leaf centers

all held atop a short 3-6" stalk in midspring

native from North Carolina

is a rare California endemic

Cardamine douglassii Southern Lady Perennial Plant of the Year The foliage can be removedCardamine douglassii has become one of our new favorite native spring ephemeral plants. Cardamine douglassii emerges in early November for us and remains as flat rosettes of glaucous leaves until mid February, when it expands into a 1' tall x 18" wide clump of foliage, adorned with flower spikes of mauvy pink a true showpiece in the winter woodland garden at the same time as hellebores. For us, Cardamine douglassii is completely dormant by late April.