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Cardamine pratensis

Cardamine pratensis

Botany Photo of the Day will have brief written entries on weekends, holidays and my vacations from April through September. – Daniel

Thank you to Stephen, aka stephenbuchan@Flickr from Edinburgh, Scotland for sharing today's image (original via BPotD Flickr Group Pool).

Known commonly as cuckoo flower or lady's smock, Cardamine pratensis is a plant of northern temperate meadows and wet open woods (the epithet pratensis means “of meadows”).

1 Comments

Margaret-Rae Davis commented:

Lovely flowers. The selective focus really makes such a good picture.
Thanks for sharing.
Margaret-Rae

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