Cardamine violacea
Lady's Smock
Cardamine pratensis
L. Species
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- Botanical name
- Cardamine pratensis
- Also known as
- Cuckoo Flower, Cuckoo-Flower, Cuckooflower, European Field Bittercress, Lady's Smock, Lady's-Smock, Meadow Bittercress, Meadow Cress, Milk-Maids, Spinks
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Cardamine
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Lady's Smock
We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Cardamine pratensis but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Cardamine acaulis
Cardamine buchtormensis
Cardamine fontinalis
Cardamine fossicola
Cardamine fragilis
Cardamine herbivaga
Cardamine integrifolia
Cardamine laurentiana
Cardamine monticola
Cardamine nasturtii
Cardamine nasturtiifolia
Cardamine nasturtioides
Cardamine orophila
Cardamine pratensis f. arctica
Cardamine pratensis f. pratensis
Cardamine pratensis subsp. iliciana
Cardamine pratensis var. debilis
Cardamine pratensis var. grandiflora
Cardamine pratensis var. minor
Cardamine pratensis var. spasskajae
Cardamine pratensis var. stolonifera
Cardamine pseudopratensis
Cardamine scaturiginosa
Cardamine stolonifera
Cardamine sylvatica
Crucifera pratensis
Ghinia pratensis
Others in Cardamine
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