ragged robin
Lychnis flos-cuculi 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.