Lady’s Smock / Cuckoo Flower in bloom in Kilteevan.
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Lady's Smock /Cuckoo-flower /or in Irish Biolar gréagáin (Cardamine pratensis)
These beautiful large white to pinkish flowers are plentiful in Kilteevan's damp meadows this week
( 27th. April 2015).
It’s amazing how the Lady’s Smock and the cuckoo bird arrive together annually.
It is a native plant and belongs to the large family Brassicaceae.
It is a larval foodplant of the Orange-tip butterfly below photographed in Kilteevan in June 2014.
We look forward to his return in a few weeks time.
