Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Lady's Smock, Cardamine pratensis, Biolar gréagáin
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Cuckoo-flower / Lady's Smock
Cardamine pratensis
Biolar gréagáin
Family: Brassicaceae

Flowering time: March-June. Perennial. Native.

Large white to pinkish-mauve flowers with yellow anthers. The colour depends on habitat, pink-mauve on dryer ground. Fruit with either a long or short style. Basal leaves round / oval, the stem leaves narrow-lanceolate. A variable plant, sometimes with runners. Height: To 60 cm

Very frequent in damp meadows and lawns, stream sides and open moist woodland.

Lady's Smock, Cardamine pratensis, Biolar gréagáin

Lady's Smock, Cardamine pratensis, Biolar gréagáin
Lady's Smock, Cardamine pratensis, Biolar gréagáin

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