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
Did you know?
- It's alternative name of Lady’s smock originates from Tudor times
- The range of the cuckoo flower has been reduced due to the drainage of many of our wetlands
- The plant was said to be sacred to the fairies, therefore unlucky to bring the flowers indoors
- Cuckoo flower leaves were once used as a substitute for watercress, to which it is closely related