Pavasarinis švitriešis – Ficaria verna

Pavasarinis švitriešis

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant name	Pavasarinis švitriešis
Latin plant name	Ficaria verna Huds.
English plant name	Lesser Celandine
TYPE OF PARTERRE	Flowerbed, parterres Clump, beds (mixborder) Pods Groups Rockery, retaining walls Cemetery Water bodies and coastal Wild plant parterre Combination with woody plants
ASSORTMENT	supplementary
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil	wet soils average wet soils dry soils
Lighting	Heliophilous Half heliophobic
Spacing, cm	From 15 to 20
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height	very short (foreground plants) – till 20 cm height
Habitus	flower with non-expressive habitus, for background
PLANTS ORNAMENTALITY
Leaf color	green
Blossom color	yellow, yellow tints
Blooming time	spring - April Second Decade - June First Decade
Blooming period	1 month
General ornamentality	little decorative
Ornamentality duration, months	3
Group	logn-lived perennial (grown 7 and more years)
Bioecological group	Perennial
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods: scrub division, tubers. Self-sowing plant. Seedlings could be planted to the final growing place. Propagated by scrub division in Spring or in Autumn by tubers.