Cardamine bulbosa -- (Bulbous Bittercress)


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 Scientific Name:  Cardamine bulbosa
 Common Name:  Bulbous Bittercress
 Duration of Life:  Perennial
 Bloom Color:  White
 Plant Origin:  Native
 Soil Type prefered:  Loam, Clay
 Drought Tolerance:  None
 Flower Conspicuous:  Yes
 Soil Fertility Requirement:  Medium
 Moisture Use:  Medium
 Shade Tolerance:  Tolerant
 Active Growth Period:  Spring
 Anaerobic Tolerance:  Medium
 Calcium Carbonate Tolerance:  Medium
 Bloom Period:  Mid Spring
 Commercial Availability:  No Known Source
 Cold Stratification Required:  No
 Fall Conspicuous:  No
 Frost Free Days, Minimum:  90
 Foliage Color:  Green
 Fruit/Seed Abundance:  High
 Fruit/Seed Period Begin:  Spring
 Fruit/Seed Conspicuous:  No
 Fruit/Seed Period End:  Spring
 Fruit/Seed Color:  Black
 Fruit/Seed Persistence:  No
 Fire Tolerance:  Medium
 Foliage Texture:  Medium
 Growth Form:  Single Crown
 Growth Habit:  Forb/herb
 Growth Rate:  Rapid
 Height, Mature (feet):  1.4
 Leaf Retention:  No
 Low Growing Grass:  No
 Life Span:  Moderate
 Max. Planting Density/Acre:  4800
 Min. Planting Density/Acre:  2700
 pH (Maximum):  6.8
 pH (Minimum):  5
 Precipitation (Minimum):  30
 Protein Potential:  Low
 Resprout Ability:  No
 Root Depth, Min. (inches):  10
 Salt Tolerance:  None
 Shape and Orientation:  Erect
 Small Grain:  No
 Seed Spread Rate:  Moderate
 Seedling Vigor:  High
 Temperature, Minimum (F):  -33
 Toxicity:  None
 Vegetative Spread Rate:  None
 Propagation:  Bulbs, Seed
 Palpable: (eatable)  Browse Animal (Low), Graze Animal (Low)
 Category:  Dicot
 Division:  Magnoliophyta
 Class:  Magnoliopsida
 Order:  Capparales
 Family:  Brassicaceae
 Genus:  Cardamine

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