Cuckoo Flower Rhs

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Cuckoo flower rhs. We aim to enrich everyone s life through plants and make the uk a greener and more beautiful place. The flowers are usually veined with darker violet but in some areas pure white forms can be found. Arum maculatum is a common woodland plant species of the family araceae it is widespread across most of europe as well as turkey and the caucasus. The leaves are a basal rosette with 8 pairs of oval leaflets.

It is known by an abundance of common names including snakeshead adder s root arum wild arum arum lily lords and ladies devils and angels cows and bulls cuckoo pint soldiers diddies priest s pintle adam and eve bobbins naked girls. We aim to enrich everyone s life through plants and make the uk a greener and more beautiful place. The royal horticultural society is the uk s leading gardening charity. Join the rhs today and get 12 months for the price of 9.

We aim to enrich everyone s life through plants and make the uk a greener and more beautiful place. Buy from 2 49 at the rhs plants shop. The royal horticultural society is the uk s leading gardening charity. Find help information on cardamine trifolia three leaved cuckoo flower from the rhs.

Cuckoo flower cardamine pratensis is a herbaceous early spring perennial with delicate lilac or violet tinted flowers with obvious dark violet veins and yellow anthers on a sturdy stem varying in size to around 40cm long seen from april to june. A charming well behaved and informal wildflower. Cuckooflower cardamine pratensis often known as lady s smock the pretty lilac flowers open around the time the cuckoo starts to call. It is an important food plant for the caterpillars of the orange tip and the green veined white butterfly.

Cuckooflower also commonly known as lady s smock is a pretty springtime perennial of damp grassy places like wet meadows ditches and riverbanks as well as roadside verges. The single lilac pink flowers are softly coloured and dainty clustered at the top of compact plants 20cm 8in tall when the flower stems reach. The royal horticultural society is the uk s leading gardening charity.