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Cardamine pratensis L., 1753

Common names

  • 🇬🇧 Cuckooflower
  • 🇫🇷 Cardamine des prés, Cresson des prés, Cressonnette

Taxonomy

  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Clade: Tracheophytes
  • Clade: Angiosperms
  • Clade: Eudicots
  • Clade: Superrosids
  • Clade: Rosids
  • Clade: Malvids
  • Order: Brassicales
  • Family: Brassicaceae
  • Subfamily: Brassicoideae
  • Tribe: Cardamineae
  • Genus: Cardamine
  • Species: Cardamine pratensis

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

  • Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
  • Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

  • C. pratensis subsp. atlantica (Emb. & Maire) Greuter & Burdet, 1983;
  • C. pratensis subsp. dentata (Schult.) Čelak., 1875, P (het. syn. C. dentata Schult., 1809);
  • C. pratensis subsp. granulosa (All.) Arcang., 1894;
  • C. pratensis subsp. iliciana (Fritsch) O.E.Schulz, 1903;
  • C. pratensis subsp. picra De Langhe & D´hose, 1976;
  • C. pratensis subsp. pratensis L., 1753, P;
  • C. pratensis subsp. rivularis (Schur) O.Bolòs & Vigo, 1974, Q (het. syn. C. rivularis Schur, 1853);
  • C. pratensis subsp. submatthiolii
    • var. spasskajae Tzvelev, 2001;
    • var. submatthiolii Tzvelev, 2000.

Photographs

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Cardamine pratensis - Upper cauline leaf
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Cardamine pratensis - Lower cauline leaf
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Cardamine pratensis - Flower buds
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Cardamine pratensis - Seeds

Sources

  • Lansdown, R.V. (2011). Cardamine pratensis (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2011. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/164290/5812787

  • Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 580). Biotope.