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Cardamine

cuckoo flower

Other common names
bittercress
American pepper root
see moretoothwort
Synonyms
Dentaria
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Botanical details
Family
Brassicaceae
Native to GB / Ireland
No
Genus

Cardamine

Genus description

Cardamine are herbaceous perennials with simple, palmately or pinnately divided leaves and short racemes of 4-petalled white, yellow, pink or purplish flowers in spring or summer

Name status

Correct

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