Cardamine pratensis

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Cardamine pratensis']

English: cuckoo flower, Cuckoo Bittercress, Cuckooflower
العربية: حرف مرجي
azərbaycanca: Çəmənlik ürəkotu
български: ливадна горва
català: Creixen de prat
čeština: Řeřišnice luční
Cymraeg: blodyn llefrith
dansk: Engkarse
Deutsch: Wiesen-Schaumkraut
Esperanto: Herbejkardamino
eesti: Aas-jürilill
euskara: Xanpora
suomi: Luhtalitukka
français: Cardamine des prés
Nordfriisk: Klooker
Gaeilge: Biolar gréagáin
hornjoserbsce: Łučna žerchwica
magyar: Réti kakukktorma
lietuvių: Pievinė kartenė
norsk bokmål: Engkarse
Nedersaksies: Pinksterblom
Nederlands: Pinksterbloem
norsk nynorsk: Engkarse
norsk: Engkarse
polski: Rzeżucha łąkowa
русский: Сердечник луговой
slovenčina: žerušnica lúčna
svenska: Ängsbräsma
українська: Жеруха лучна
walon: Schite d' agaesse
中文: 草甸碎米荠

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: angiosperms • Cladus: eudicots • Cladus: core eudicots • Cladus: superrosids • Cladus: rosids • Cladus: eurosids II • Ordo: Brassicales • Familia: Brassicaceae • Tribus: Cardamineae • Genus: Cardamine • Species: Cardamine pratensis L.

Images of the whole plantEdit

Photo by Kristian Peters

Natural habitatsEdit

Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis)
(Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
(Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)

InflorescencesEdit

detail of the perianth,
Photo by Kristian Peters
Buds

SeedsEdit

Pods
Pod

LeavesEdit

Leaf

Botanical illustrations

Drawing by Elly Waterman
Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796)
Flora Batava, Volume 1 (1800)
Flora Batava, Volume 16 (1881)
Otto W. Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885
Atlas des plantes de France. 1891
Travniška penuša. (Cardámine praténsis.)
Illustration #364 in: Martin Cilenšek: Naše škodljive rastline, Celovec (1892)
Cardamine pratensis
plate 10 in:
Wayside and woodland blossoms,
1895,
page 30
Cardamine pratensis
plate 10 in:
Wayside and woodland blossoms,
1895,
page 30 alternative
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Cardamine pratensis L. - cuckoo flower; USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 184.
Lindman: Bilder ur Nordens Flora, 1917-1926