Cuckoo Flower

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Cuckoo flower. Kew launches native flowers project to restore vanishing habitats. It is part of the brassicaceae family and is native throughout most of europe and western asia. Its pale pink flowers bloom from april to june and are thought to coincide with the arrival of the first cuckoo a sure sign that spring has arrived at last. 2003 2012 princeton university farlex inc.

April to june a charming well behaved and informal wildflower. From wikipedia the free encyclopedia cardamine pratensis the cuckoo flower lady s smock mayflower or milkmaids is a flowering plant in the family brassicaceae native throughout most of europe and western asia. The flowers droop and close at night or during heavy rain. The cuckoo flower sometimes spelt cuckooflower can be found in moist or wet habitats including meadows damp grasslands roadsides ditches and river banks.

A beautiful crown of very pail pink purple or sometimes white cruciforme flowers four petals in a cross shape growing in a ring at the top of the flower stem. The single lilac pink flowers are softly coloured and dainty clustered at the top of compact plants 20cm 8in. The leaves are a basal rosette with 8 pairs of oval leaflets. The specific name pratensis is latin for meadow.

Cuckooflower also commonly known as lady s smock is a pretty springtime perennial of damp grassy places like wet meadows ditches and riverbanks as well as roadside verges. It is an important food plant for the caterpillars of the orange tip and the green veined white butterfly. The scheme has started by growing lowland meadow species such as the devil s bit scabious cuckoo flower green field speedwell and harebell at temporary seed production beds in the walled nursery at the millennium seed bank s wakehurst place west sussex. Pratensis is a perennial to 40cm forming a basal rosette of pinnate leaves with rounded leaflets with erect leafy stems bearing short open racemes of 4 petalled pale pink or white flowers 1 5cm across in late spring.

Cardamine pratensis cuckoo flower lady s smock meadow cress bitter cress bittercress any of various herbs of the genus cardamine having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white pink or purple flowers.