Cutleaf Toothwort - Cardamine concatenata/Dentaria laciniata
Above: Cutleaf Toothwort near Council Ring Spring in Madison, Wisconsin on April 21, 2019.
Cutleaf Toothwort - Cardamine concatenata (Spring Ephemeral)
Cutleaf Toothwort is one of the earlier spring wildflowers. The foliage turns yellow and fades away by the end of spring. The plant typically grows in dappled sunlight and prefers moist, rich loamy soil with decaying leaves.
Other names include: Five-parted Toothwort, Pepper Root. Leaves are deeply cleft. Botanists have recently placed this plant into the genus Cardamine instead of the former Dentaria where it was called Dentaria laciniata.
Above: Cutleaf Toothwort near Council Ring Spring in Madison, Wisconsin on April 21, 2019.
For more information on Cutleaf Toothwort, visit Wikipedia.
Or, visit the: Wisconsin State Herbarium.
Or, visit the UW-Madison Wisconsin Horticulture Division of Extension website page on Cutleaf Toothwort.
Cutleaf Toothwort
Cardamine concatenata
Above: Cutleaf Toothwort near Council Ring Spring and Ho-Nee-Um boardwalk (4/12/19)
Above: Cutleaf Toothwort near Council Ring Spring (4/13/19)
Above: Cutleaf Toothwort near Council Ring Spring (4/15/19)
Above: Cutleaf Toothwort near Council Ring Spring (4/19/19)
Above: Cutleaf Toothwort near the Skunk Cabbage patch in UW Arboretum (4/08/21)
Above: 1918 Cutleaf Toothwort illustration by Mary Vaux Walcott. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist.
Above: 1913 Cutleaf Toothwort illustration.
Above: Cutleaf Toothwort.
