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.
 

Record seasonal events

You can help scientists monitor the effect of climate change on cuckooflower by telling us the date when you first see it flowering where you live

• Flowering April-June but sometimes earlier