Cardamine pratensis Linnaeus 1753 (Family Brassicaceae)


Plant

Leaf

Flower

Fruit

Height: 20-50cm
Never Mycorrhizal
Perennial
Hermaphrodite, Flowering April - June (Earliest: 17.4)

Habitat:
Wet Meadows
Pollination:
Apis mellifera

Bombus terrestris

Anthocharis cardamines

Pieris napi

Pyrgus malvae

Polyommatus icarus

Lycaena helle

Adela reaumurella

Cauchas rufimitrella

Several Syrphidae

Bibio marci

Phaonia lugubris

Empis ciliata

Pachytodes cerambyciformis

Cychramus luteus

Meligethes flavimanus
Herbivores:
Anthocharis cardamines Larva

Pieris napi Larva
Sapivores:
Eurydema dominulus
Granivores:
Cauchas rufimitrella Larva

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Cuckoo Flower


Pictures © 2003, 2004, 2005 J.K. Lindsey

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