Cardamine pentaphyllos

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Cardamine pentaphyllos, the five-leaflet bitter-cress[1] or showy toothwort, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to Western and Central Europe in Slovenia and Croatia. It is an herbaceous perennial, growing to Script error: No such module "convert"., with palmate leaves and racemes of purple, pink or white flowers in late Spring and early Summer.[2]

The Latin specific epithet pentaphyllos means "with five-lobed leaves".[3] The feminine form pentaphylla is sometimes seen, but this is deemed incorrect.[2]

This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[4]

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