Re: corydalis
- Subject: Re: corydalis
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 23:53:19 EDT
In a message dated 6/9/01 1:37:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ECPep@aol.com
writes:
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The native corydalis here is Corydalis Sempervirens. This is a plant about
18 inches, or less, with blue lacy foliage. The flowers are pale pink with
a
yellow lip. It is a great self seeder so one just accepts it where it
lands,
it is not a vigorous plant.
===>I don't think that's what I have growing here, Claire. It is definitely
an all-yellow flower.
The Peterson Guide, which includes aliens, describes all native corydalis as
blue lacy foliaged plants. Except the one above they are all yellow. If
you
have a bronzy foliaged plant you may have an introduced species that likes
your garden.
===>The blue is in the eye of the beholder, I suspect. The one that spreads
rampantly here is definitely green-foliaged. The bronzy one I just bought a
couple weeks ago from a very reputable nursery here--maybe they got some
mixed seed.
There are many tuberous forms sold in the fall as well but they go dormant
after blooming. The most common is a blue flowered one, Corydalis Solida.
===>I'll have to try out C. solida.
On the rocks list it has been discussed as length and decided that Corydalis
elata, now in the better nurseries, is a blue much more suited to American
gardens than flexuosa or those with names containing the word Panda.
===>This is the one that struggled one year, and threw up two leaves the
following year, and is gone in this its third year.
Bill Lee
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