Woodland Trust

Nature's CalendarNature Detectives

Get out into the woods this weekend - see what signs of spring you can spot!

Cuckooflower. Margaret Bartoncuckooflower

Cardamine pratensis

  • Also known as Lady's smock
     
  • Pretty, white-pinkish, slightly cupped flowers
     
  • Long, elegant stems
     
  • Lower leaves with rounded leaflets
     
  • Upper leaves with narrow leaflets.
     

Where foundrecord

Damp grassland, woods, roadsides, ditches, river banks and pond edges.
 

When to look for

  • Flowering April-June but sometimes earlier