Corydalis solida

[Palustris]

Not sure if this goes here or in bulbs, move it as you wish.
Does anyone know of an up to date list of Corydalis solida subspecies and cultivars. I do not want a description of them at present only the names.
TIA.

[Maggi Young]

Janis Ruksans' list has as big a selection as I can think of offhand.
And the RHS  Plant finder gives a long list :
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantfinder2.asp?crit=Corydalis+and+solida&Genus=Corydalis

Here are some I know...
Corydalis solida 'Aband Wine'
Corydalis solida 'Ballade'
Corydalis solida 'Beth Evans'
Corydalis solida 'Blushing Girl'
Corydalis solida 'Cantata'
Corydalis solida 'Christina'
Corydalis solida 'Craigton Red'
Corydalis solida 'Dieter Schacht'
Corydalis solida 'Evening Dream'
Corydalis solida Firecracker

Corydalis solida 'Fire Jet'
Corydalis solida 'George Baker'
Corydalis solida 'Gunite'
Corydalis solida 'Harkov'
Corydalis solida 'Highland Mist'
Corydalis solida Ibis
Corydalis solida 'King Arthur'
Corydalis solida 'Margaret'
Corydalis solida 'Merlin'
Corydalis solida 'Nettleton Pink'
Corydalis solida 'Pink Discovery'
Corydalis solida 'Prasil Strain'
Corydalis solida 'Purple Beauty'
Corydalis solida 'Red Banner'
Corydalis solida 'Red Lion'
Corydalis solida Redstart
Corydalis solida 'Rosefinch'
Corydalis solida 'Rosula'
Corydalis solida Sabre Wing
Corydalis solida 'Sixtus'
Corydalis solida 'Snowstorm'
Corydalis solida 'White Knight'

Corydalis solida  decipiens
Corydalis solida ssp. incisa
Corydalis solida ssp. incisa 'Vermion Snow'
Corydalis solida Transylvanica
Corydalis solida 'Zwanenberg'

and from the plantfinder list:


solida 'Alcombe'   
solida 'Apple Snow'   
solida 'Ballade'   
solida 'Bilbo'   
solida 'Cantata'   
solida 'Cat's Paw'   
solida 'Christina'   
solida compact   
solida 'Crane'   
solida 'Elrond'   
solida 'Evening Dream'   
solida 'Fire Bird'   
solida 'Firecracker'   
solida 'First Kiss'   
solida 'Frodo'   
solida 'Galah'
solida 'Gandalf'   
solida 'Gimli'   
solida 'Grove Seedling'   
solida 'Gunite'   
solida 'Harkov'   
solida 'Highland Sunset'   
solida 'Ice Pink'   
solida subsp. incisa   
solida subsp. incisa 'Lavender Lips'   
solida subsp. incisa 'Vermion Dawn'   
solida subsp. incisa 'Vermion Snow'   
solida subsp. incisa white-flowered   
solida 'Ivory'   
solida 'King Arthur'   
solida 'Kissproof'   
solida 'Lilac Time'   
solida lilac-flowered   
solida 'Linnet'   
solida 'Lord of Moria'   
solida 'Loth Lorien'
solida 'Maggie Mathew'   
solida 'Margaret'   
solida 'Maxima'   
solida 'Merlin'   
solida 'Moonlight Shade'   
solida 'Mordorland'   
solida Nettleton seedlings   
solida 'Night Heron'   
solida pink and red shades   
solida 'Pink Discovery'   
solida 'Pink Smile'   
solida 'Pink Splash'   
solida 'Pipit'   
solida 'Punk Lips'   
solida 'Purple Beauty'   
solida 'Purple Bird'   
solida 'Pussy'   
solida 'Quiet Elegance'   
solida 'Redpoll'   
solida 'Redwing'
solida 'Rosefinch'   
solida 'Rozula'   
solida 'Simaril'   
solida 'Smokey Blue'   
solida 'Snowlark'   
solida 'Soft Pink'   
solida subsp. solida   
solida subsp. solida from Penza, Russia   
solida subsp. solida 'Alba'   
solida subsp. solida 'Beth Evans'   
solida subsp. solida 'Blue Dream'   
solida subsp. solida 'Blue Giant'   
solida subsp. solida 'Blue Pearl'   
solida subsp. solida 'Blushing Girl'   
solida subsp. solida 'Charles Archbold'   
solida subsp. solida dark pink-flowered   
solida subsp. solida 'Dieter Schacht'   
solida subsp. solida 'Evening Shade'   
solida subsp. solida 'George Baker'     
solida subsp. solida 'Highland Mist' 

solida subsp. solida 'Lahovice'   
solida subsp. solida Munich form   
solida subsp. solida 'Munich Sunrise'   
solida subsp. solida Nettleton mauve   
solida subsp. solida 'Nettleton Pink'   
solida subsp. solida pale pink-flowered   
solida subsp. solida Prasil Group   
solida subsp. solida 'Prasil Sunset'   
solida subsp. solida 'Sixtus'   
solida subsp. solida 'Snowstorm'   
solida subsp. solida 'White Knight'   
solida 'Spoonbill'   
solida 'Spring Bird'   
solida subsp. subremota   
solida 'White Bird'   
solida 'White King'   
solida 'White Swallow'   
solida 'Yaroslavna'   
solida 'Zwanenberg'   
aff. solida subsp. incisa
 
 
 


 
 

[Palustris]

Wow! wow and triple wow!
Thank you most sincerely. My out of date Plant Finder does not have half of those mentioned..
I did look at the Corydalis National Collection page, but there was no list of cultivars on it that I could find.
When I tried Searching I did not get that list from the Plant finder either.
Now all I need is a lot of money!

[Maggi Young]

I use the online Plant Finder, Eric - it's free.

There are a few suppliers listing quite good numbers but the one I have experience of is Janis Ruksans- his list will be out soon and although  he has reported in the Forum that he has had a great deal of trouble with rodent attack and disruption in his fields n his corydalis, it may be that he still has enough to tempt you- as Ian mentioned recently in the Bulb Log, Janis has, in the past, offered selections of mixed  types and these are a very good value and you get some real crackers- great for getting decent plantings established in the garden.
Of course, if you prefer named cultivars, you will have great fun making a choice of those.
I think that a forum search of quite a few of the names will bring up  photos  to tease you!

[Palustris]

Please.no, not mice. We have not got a single Crocus left in the garden, the mice have eaten them all this Winter. I have been putting in a few hundred every year for the last 18 years, so you can imagine we had a few. Now on a walk this morning I could not find a single clump which has not been dug up.
I don't think I will bother with C. solida in that case.

[Maggi Young]

Oh my word- your crocus losses sound horrible.   
We've got more than enough mice but we are not aware of them going for the corydalis. We plant a lot of them in lattice pots, to make it easier to find them if we want to split  them up, or to stop sticking a fork in them. ( The corydalis,  not the mice!! )

[Leena]

I have planted my first Corydalis 2009, and more each autumn since, and luckily here the voles or mice have not eaten them. This is a very short time, but I hope that if they find the bulbs some winter, by that time there will already be seedlings and not all will be lost (and I have sown some seeds in pots, too).

One of the first was Corydalis solida 'Evening Shade', planted 2009, bought from Janis Ruksans (through a gardening friend). This is a very good and vigorous plant, at least in my garden. The first picture was taken spring 2010 and the second last spring 2012, and it has multiplied a lot in only this short time.
In the foreground of the second picture is one flowerhead of C.solida subsp incisa 'Vermion Snow', which is still about the same size as when it first flowered, and it hasn't increased hardly at all (planted the same year as 'Evening Shade').
I hope some new red Corydalis I have planted last year and year before that will be as vigorous as 'Evening Shade'.

[gote]

Mice are indeed a problem but they are not disastrous. Solidas seed themselves willingly if they like the situation and the mice do not seem to eat the very small seedlings.
When I plant a single precious Corydalis solida (or crocus) I take 15 x 15 cm metal net with 4-6 mm openings. I then bend down 5cm on all sides so I get a cubic cage. I plant the corm some 5cm deep and put the cage on top about a cem above the corm. This keeps mice out and has the added benefit that the corm is easily found since it sits inside the cage.  Corydalis solida usually doubles every year so the single-corm cage needs replacement soon but it is easy to make larger cages.
The mice might try to get at the corm and damage the green parts but they soon learn that it is useless and the Corydalis has good powers to recuperate.
Good luck
Göte