Cortusa Matthioli Alba

This is the much scarcer form of the delicate, dwarf, and rarely offered primula relative bearing umbels of deeply cleft, pure white bells on delicate stems in early spring. In the wild it grows in moist damp woodlands and mountain meadows in north eastern Europe, where it produces attractive clumps of jagged-edged leaves and self-seeds readily. It will do the same in the garden provided it has shade and good damp organic soil to grow in.