Re: Corydalils lutea or flava
- Subject: Re: Corydalils lutea or flava
- From: J* G* a* O* P*
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 18:11:07 +0100
The message <3b.26f1ffc9.2a1f1eef@aol.com>
from Blee811@aol.com contains these words:
> In a message dated 5/23/02 6:42:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ECPep@aol.com
> writes:
> > 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.
> Maybe, Claire, but I saw at Gene's place a corydalis he called lutea and it
> was much nicer than my woodland wonder. Mine is much rangier with smaller,
> lighter-colored flowers, in both sun and shade.
> Bill Lee
In UK lots of Corydalis seeds turn out to have lighter flowers and to be
fairly rangy (not as compact/shapely as C. lutea?). In my experience
they are normally Corydalis ophiocarpa. The leaves are lightish too,
kind of greyish tinged and it's quite pretty, does seed itself around,
but isn't really a nuisance. It's rather more nondescript than C. lutea
though.
Janet Galpin, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK, Min temp: -8
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