Re: Corydalils lutea or flava

In a message dated 5/21/02 8:34:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Blee811@aol.com 
writes:

<< ===>I was pretty sure this yellow-blooming corydalis of mine was not lutea 
 and last month a bulb expert from Latvia, Janis Ruksans, visited my garden 
as 
 part of the daffodil convention and told me what I had all over the place 
was 
 flava, which I suspected from the limited research I was able to do. >>

Bill, 

Could your guest have used European Latin form and ID'd you plant as flava.  
Flava and lutea mean nearly the same thing.  Lutea having a slight difference 
as meaning to become yellow.  Flava meaning yellow or yellowish.

I cannot find any difference and cannot find any reference to Corydalis 
flava.  I looked at my plants and they are not coughing up any information. 

Using flava to ID plants as yellow is falling out of favor.  I don't know why 
but changing plant names every five minutes is necessary so a gardener does 
not ever think he has become learned.

There is a daylily known all over the world as Hemerocallis flava but in this 
country, we now call it H. lilioasphodelus.  Your Corydalis and mine as well 
may not know their own names! 

BTW, I am looking over something I wrote and see I have senior moments to 
account for.  Minus 26 degrees is of course not what happened here, 26 
degrees is what happened.  

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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