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

Lycaena helle

Polyommatus icarus

Coenonympha pamphilus

Cauchas rufimitrella

Euclidia glyphica

Panemeria tenebrata

Adscita statices

Several Syrphidae

Several Empidae

Phaonia lugubris

Pachytodes cerambyciformis

Plateumaris sericea

Meligethes coracinus

Byturus tomentosus

Ctenicera pectinicornis
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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