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Cardamine lilacina, the lilac bitter-cress, is a small herbaceous plant from south-eastern Australia, usually grown as an annual or short-lived perennial. It is a minor wildflower and is rarely cultivated, so care is mostly a matter of mimicking its moist, shaded native habitat.
Cardamine lilacina, commonly known as the lilac bitter-cress, is a herbaceous plant native to Australia.
Large Bitter Cress · Seaside bittercress · Slender toothwort · Cardamine barbaraeoides · Alpine bittercress · Brewer's bittercress · Coralroot bittercress · Bulbous bittercress · Milkmaids · Cardamine carrii · Cutleaf toothwort · Constance's bittercress
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cardamine lilacina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
