Wildflower id please.

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  June 2021 edited June 2021

  Cardamine pratensis.....common name many..inc Cuckoo flower.
  Flowers delicate pink.
  https://www.google.com/search?q="Cardamine+pratensis"&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZiMK2xILxAhUPahQKHSNUCaYQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1280&bih=567
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2021 edited June 2021

  The white form of Cardamine pratensis ... Cuckoo Flower, Ladies' Smock ... a flower of unimproved unfertilised damp meadows.  Love it.  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Asarum Posts: 661

  June 2021

  Cuckooflower/Lady's smock or Cardamine pratensis.  Food plant of the orange tip butterfly. 

  East Anglia

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• Ergates Posts: 2,953

  June 2021

  I remember ladies smock from my childhood, but didn’t recognise it. I think I’ll rescue it before the grass gets cut, and move it to an area that won’t get disturbed. 
  Many thanks for the prompt replies.

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2021

  The most often seen one is a pinky lilac .... the bottom end of the meadow behind where we lived when @WonkyWomble was small was full of them ... and then one year someone spread fertiliser on it  and some selective weedkiller to improve the grass ... and the Lady's Smock dwindled and never came back, at least not while we lived there.  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Buttercupdays Posts: 4,546

  June 2021

  It's been a good year for them here and there are more Orange Tips than usual too. I must be doing something right

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