- Cardamine pratensis L. - Cuckoo-flower - Cruciferae / Brassicaceae
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© Fiona McCrory
(Map updated: March 2008)
Also called the mayflower (the ship on which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed to America was probably named after this species) because of its time of main flowering. A common herbaceous plant of damp meadows and pasture; also of grassy roadside verges, woodland clearings and as a lawn weed. Very variable in colour of flower from white to deep pinky-purple.
All names: Cardamine pratensis L.; Cardamine nymanii Gand.; Cardamine matthioli Moretti; Cardamine hayneana (Reichb.) Fritsch; Cardamine palustris (Wimmer & Grab.) Peterm.; Cardamine rivularis Schur; Cardamine crassifolia Porret
NBN Atlas mapping: Species account : NBN Atlas UK Species Observations database
iNaturalist: Species account : iNaturalist World Species Observations database