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.
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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.