Cuckoo Flower Leaves

Loose elongating cluster of white flowers on slender stalks at the tip of the stem.

Cuckoo flower leaves. Young leaves of the cuckooflower have a. Pensylvanica does have divided leaves like cuckoo flower but its flowers are much smaller 1 8 to inch across and is a much more robust plant. Cuckooflower has a rosette of leaves at its base and an upright stem that bears the delicate small pale pink or mauve flowers. Basal leaves the basal leaves can usually be found year round and are much rounder than the flower stem leaves but are still compound.

Pratensis is a perennial to 40cm forming a basal rosette of pinnate leaves with rounded leaflets with erect leafy stems bearing short open racemes of 4 petalled pale pink or white flowers 1 5cm across in late spring. In parts of devon flore pleno the double flowered form and hose in hose form where one normal bloom grows through. It has pinnate compound leaves leaves opposite each other on a stem with one terminal leaf at the end which are thin when growing from the flower stem. Flowers are about inch across have 4 white petals broadest above the middle rounded and sometimes slightly notched at the tip.

In the center are 6 creamy white to pale yellow stamens and a pale green style.