Cuckooflower - Cardamine pratensis
Medium height, hairless plant with erect stems. Basal leaves in a rosette, pinnate with a large end leaflet. Upper leaves with numerous narrow leaflets. Flowers pale lilac, rarely white 12 to 18 mm notched petals and yellow anthers.
Damp pasture, marshes, stream and pond margins.
April to June.
Perennial.
Common throughout Britain.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 463 of the 617 tetrads.
In the current Checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Native, locally frequent
David Nicholls
Lea Meadows
16 April 2014
Lostash
Enderby Road (Fields)
24 April 2011
HAPeacock
The Orchards
09 May 2013
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Harecroft Crescent play area
19 April 2024
David Gould
Aylestone Meadows, Leicester.
26 April 2015
David Gould
Aylestone Meadows, Leicester.
18 April 2015
Graham Calow
Witherley
27 May 2015
basal leaf
Graham Calow
Burbage Common
17 April 2025
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Species profile
- Common names
- Lady's Smock, Cuckooflower, Cuckoo Flower, Milk-Maids
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Brassicales
- Family:
- Brassicaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 565
- First record:
- 11/05/1992 (John Mousley;Steve Grover)
- Last record:
- 16/05/2025 (Calow, Graham)
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