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Cuckoo-flower / Lady's Smock Large white to pinkish-mauve flowers. Yellow anthers. Colour depends on habitat, pink-mauve on dryer ground. Fruit with long or short style. Basal leaves round / oval, in rosette. Stem leaves narrow-lanceolate. Variable plant, sometimes with runners. Height: To 60 cm Very frequent. Damp meadows and lawns, stream sides, open moist woodland. |
Photograph above: Ballingeary, Co.Cork. May 2007