Is spring late where you live? Take a walk in the woods and see what you can find to record
cuckooflower
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.
When to look for
- Flowering April-June but sometimes earlier