| Description | A white flowering ephemeral, blooming in the early spring. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
| Sunlight | shade, deciduous woods |
| Moisture | average to moist |
| Soil & Site | normal to moist, humusy, ph 6-7, open woods |
| Flowers | 1/2' long, white to light purple and many on a stalk, blooms end of April through May |
| Fruit | forms a narrow upturned seed pod, |
| Leaves | whorl of 3 leaves to each stem, many coarse teeth |
| Dimensions | 8-10", forms dense patches |
| Propagation | seeds, division |
| Misc Facts | This is a host plant for the Checkered White Butterfly caterpillar. Dentaria refers to the tooth like swellings on the root. Lacinata refers to the leaves, having slashed or torn into narrow divisions. |
| Author's Notes | This ephemeral wild flower will form thick patches of plants. The blooms great a drift of white. I have seen patches of pure white flowering plants next to a patch of pure light violet plants. A fairly common ephemeral wild flower in southeastern Wisconsin (USA), where I live. |
| Notes & Reference | #13-Growing Woodland Plants (Birdseye), #41-Wildflowers of Wisconsin (Stan Tekiela), #100-Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest (Merel Black and Emmet Judziewicz) |
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