Cuckoo flower
Cardamine pratensis L.
- light
- —
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- —
Brassicaceae
Formerly Crucifera pratensis, Dracamine pratensis, Ghinia pratensis, Nasturtium pratense
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Greenland to NC. & NE. U.S.A., Azores, Temp. Eurasia, EthiopiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 61 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- German
- Wiesenschaumkraut
- Chinese
- 普贤菜, 草甸碎米荠
- Dutch
- Pinksterbloem, pinksterbloem
- Asturian
- agrión
- Czech
- řeřišnice luční
- Welsh
- blodyn llefrith
- Finnish
- luhtalitukka
- French
- cardamine des prés
- Macedonian
- ливадска пенливка
- Simplified Chinese
- 草甸碎米荠, 诺古音一照古其
- Slovenian
- travniška penuša
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Cardamine pratensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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