Cardamine pratensis

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'Cardamine pratensis']

English: cuckoo flower, Cuckoo Bittercress, Cuckooflower
العربية: حرف مرجي
مصرى: حرف مرجى
asturianu: agrión
azərbaycanca: Çəmənlik ürəkotu
беларуская: буйміна лугавая
български: ливадна горва
català: Creixen de prat
čeština: řeřišnice luční
Cymraeg: blodyn llefrith
dansk: Engkarse
Deutsch: Wiesenschaumkraut
Esperanto: Herbejkardamino
eesti: Aas-jürilill
euskara: Xanpora
فارسی: گل کاکوو
suomi: luhtalitukka
føroyskt: Eingjarkarsi
français: cardamine des prés
Nordfriisk: Klooker
Gaeilge: biolar gréagáin
hornjoserbsce: Łučna žerchwica
magyar: Réti kakukktorma
日本語: ハナタネウケバナ
kernowek: lethvyrgh
lietuvių: Pievinė kartenė
македонски: ливадска пенливка
norsk bokmål: engkarse
Nedersaksies: Pinksterblom
Nederlands: Pinksterbloem, pinksterbloem
norsk nynorsk: Engkarse
norsk: Engkarse
Pälzisch: Wiesen-Schaumkraut
polski: Rzeżucha łąkowa
русский: Сердечник луговой
slovenčina: Žerušnica lúčna
svenska: Ängsbräsma
українська: Жеруха лучна
walon: Schite d' agaesse
中文: 普贤菜, 草甸碎米荠
中文（中国大陆）: 草甸碎米荠
中文（简体）: 草甸碎米荠, 诺古音一照古其

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 plant[edit]

Photo by Kristian Peters

Natural habitats[edit]

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

Inflorescences[edit]

detail of the perianth,
Photo by Kristian Peters
Buds

Seeds[edit]

Pods
Pod

Leaves[edit]

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
Cardamine pratensis
plate 10 in:
Wayside and woodland blossoms,
1895

alternative
crop
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