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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 found

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

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  • Flowering April-June but sometimes earlier