Cardamine pentaphyllos Crantz

Dentaire digitée (fr), Cardamine à cinq feuilles (fr), dentaire digitée (fr), Cresson des bois (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Brassicales > Brassicaceae > Cardamine

Characteristics

A cabbage family herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 15-30 cm tall. The leaves are compound and bright green.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread barochory
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.13 - 0.35
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in mountainous areas in Europe. It grows in a range of soils. It is best in moist or wet soil.
More
Mountainous areas.
Light 2-7
Soil humidity 5-8
Soil texture 1-3
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-9

Usage

The leaves are eaten raw or cooked. They are slightly bitter. The flowers are also eaten raw.
Uses -
Edible flowers leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown from seeds. Seeds germinate in 1-3 weeks at 15°C. Seedlings can be transplanted.
Mode divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -23
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Cardamine pentaphyllos habit picture by Virginia (cc-by-sa)
Cardamine pentaphyllos habit picture by Jean-François Baudin (cc-by-sa)
Cardamine pentaphyllos habit picture by Sylvain Piry (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Cardamine pentaphyllos leaf picture by Agusti i Parareda Concepcio (cc-by-sa)
Cardamine pentaphyllos leaf picture by Laura Gomez (cc-by-sa)
Cardamine pentaphyllos leaf picture by Recher Helmut (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Cardamine pentaphyllos flower picture by Jérôme Volck (cc-by-sa)
Cardamine pentaphyllos flower picture by Wolfgang Scholz (cc-by-sa)
Cardamine pentaphyllos flower picture by Andrea Jäger (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Cardamine pentaphyllos fruit picture by grutz (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Cardamine pentaphyllos world distribution map, present in France

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:280570-1
WFO ID wfo-0000587332
COL ID R4KY
BDTFX ID 12925
INPN ID 87961
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Dentaria pentaphyllos Cardamine clusiana Crucifera pentaphylla Dentaria clusiana Dentaria digitata Cardamine digitata Cardamine digitata var. glabra Cardamine digitata var. pubescens Cardamine pentaphyllos