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Cuckoo Flower

Cardamine pratensis

Description:

Is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 40-60 cm tall, with pinnate leaves 5-12 cm long with 3-15 leaflets, each leaflet about 1 cm long. The flowers are produced on a spike 10-30 cm long, each flower 1-2 cm diameter with four pale pink (rarely white) petals. It grows best close to water.

Habitat:

Is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native throughout most of Europe and Western Asia.

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Leuven, Vlaanderen, Belgium

Spotted on Apr 1, 2012
Submitted on Apr 16, 2012

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