Lady's Smock

Cardamine pratensis

About

Also known as cuckooflower, lady's smock flowers when the cuckoo arrives and is the primary larval food plant of the orange-tip butterfly. Pale lilac blooms appear in damp meadows and stream margins in April and May.

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Quick Facts

Category: Plant
Latin name: Cardamine pratensis
IUCN Status: LC — Least Concern
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Conservation Status: LC

Least Concern — assessed by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.