cuckooflower
lady's smock
Cardamine pratensis latin

Parts of the grassland are herb rich, with wild flowers such as cuckooflower.

Cuckooflower occurs commonly and bog violet and greater spearwort are to be found in places.

As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose the cuckooflower as the county flower.

Other species such as Lesser Spearwort, Cuckooflower and Ragged Robin are present.

Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis)

Missing Flowers Q. I would like to know where I might obtain seeds for the wildflower called lady's-smock or cuckooflower .

The grassland area is now unimproved and Cowslip, Tormentil, Cuckooflower and Bird's-foot-trefoil flourish.

Other species recorded in the meadow are Lesser Celandine, Common Sorrel, Cuckooflower and Creeping Buttercup.

The fields support grassland flowers such as Common Fleabane, Agrimony, Cuckooflower, Marjoram and Bulbous Buttercup.

Rushes are abundant, and plants include Marsh-marigold, Cuckooflower, Meadow-sweet, Ragged-robin, Lesser Spearwort and Common Marsh-bedstraw.

Marsh fern and white sedge, which are rare in Cheshire, are found here; other species include cuckooflower, marsh bedstraw, marsh cinquefoil and Sphagnum squarrosum.

The nature reserve in spring supports Wood Anemone, Cuckooflower, Bluebell, Ramsons, Herb-Paris and frequent Toothwort which is parasitic on the mature hazel coppice.

There are also Beech, Wychland has been agriculturally enriched in the past, it still supports Cowslip, Pignut Tormential, Cuckooflower, Bird's-foot -trefoil and a small colony of Bee Orchids.

The female lays eggs singly on the flowerheads of Cuckooflower Cardamine pratensis and Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata and many other species of wild Crucifers, all of which contain chemicals called glucosinolates.

Caterpillars live on the seeds of Cardamine pratensis and then they pupate over the winter.

The cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis), a herbaceous perennial, can be found throughout Wales.

Cardamine pratensis var.

He named his daughter Cardamine, alluding to the scientific name of the Cuckoo Flower Cardamine pratensis.

Cardamine pratensis (Cuckoo Flower or Lady's Smock), is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native throughout most of Europe and Western Asia.

These plants include fern-leaf corydalis (C. cheilanthifolia), Brunnera macrophylla, cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis), Japanese painted fern and bloodroot.

Cardamine pratensis is a herbaceous, hairless, perennial plant growing to 40-60 cm tall, with pinnate leaves 5-12 cm long with 3-15 leaflets, each leaflet about 1 cm long.

- Rose Anne Colavito, Oxford, N.J. A. From what I can gather, the lady's-smock (Cardamine pratensis) would indeed make a superb woodland plant.

The larvae are well known for the self-generated foam nests, that can be observed in Spring in meadows (especially on Cuckoo Flowers, Cardamine pratensis and broom, Genista species).

The grassland also includes typical meadow species as saw-wort Serratula tinctoria, meadow thistle Cirsium dissectum, knapweed Centaurea nigra and lady's smock Cardamine pratensis.

Great burnet, Sanguisorba officinalis, is present in abundance, as are herbs such as sneezewort, Achillea ptarmica, cuckooflower, Cardamine pratensis, meadowsweet, Filipendula ulmaria, and common spotted orchid, Dactylorhiza fuchsii.

The female lays eggs singly on the flowerheads of Cuckooflower Cardamine pratensis and Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata and many other species of wild Crucifers, all of which contain chemicals called glucosinolates.