Other common names
bread and milk, cuckoo buds, cuckoo spit, lady's smock, meadow bittercress, meadow cress, spinks, spring cress, cuckoo bread, lady's flower, mayflower, blodyn y gog
Herbaceous Perennial
A native perennial to 45cm tall, forming a basal rosette of grey-green to glossy dark green pinnate leaves to 15cm long with rounded leaflets, and erect leafy stems bearing short open racemes of 4-petalled, pale pink or white flowers 1.5cm across in late spring
Position
Full shade, Partial shade
Soil Types
Clay, Loam
Max Height
0.1-0.5 metres
Max Spread
0.1-0.5 metres