Many thanks to readers who have written in to identify the plant in Monday's post. The flowers certainly look like squill, but....
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Monday's Flower
Many thanks to readers who have written in to identify the plant in Monday's post. The flowers certainly look like squill, but....
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You MUST have had loads of replies by now. It is the Cuckoo Flower, Cardamine pratensis. Member of the cabbage family (4 petals) closely related to the notorious bitter cress which is attempting to take over my garden. Also closely related to scurvy grass.
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ReplyDeletei know the flower , in german we call it Wiesenschaumkraut .
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesen-Schaumkraut
Many greetings from germany
It's Lady's Smock or Cuckooflower - Cardamine pratensis, again!
ReplyDeleteIt is Cardamine pratense. Cuckoo flower.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.plant-identification.co.uk/skye/cruciferae/cardamine-pratensis.htm
Plantaholic Sheila
Many thanks to all for sorting this out. I feel a sense of intense frustration that I don't 'know' our local trees and flowers, and that, despite all my efforts with two identification books, I still can't find some of them - yet 'Mrs Sheep' manages it in German! Looking at the better of the two books now, the identification is obvious. I also accept the criticism that I should always show a leaf or two as well as the flowers: will try to do better in future. Again - thank you all. Jon
ReplyDeleteAlso known as the May Flower hence the saying "don't cast a clout till May be out" that's the way I have always been led to interpret the saying but others think it is the month of May.
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