Cuckoo Flower Leaves

However both its round to kidney shaped basal leaves and upper stem leaves are simple not compound divided.

Cuckoo flower leaves.

Each flower has four petals although double flowered varieties do appear. Pratensis is a perennial to 40cm forming a basal rosette of pinnate leaves with rounded leaflets with erect leafy stems bearing short open racemes of 4 petalled pale pink or white flowers 1 5cm across in late spring. A beautiful crown of very pail pink purple or sometimes white cruciforme flowers four petals in a cross shape growing in a ring at the top of the flower stem. Strain and add one teaspoon of honey in it.

Please visit our sponsors. The leaves are a basal rosette with 8 pairs of oval leaflets. Pensylvanica does have divided leaves like cuckoo flower but its flowers are much smaller 1 8 to inch across and is a much more robust plant. It is an important food plant for the caterpillars of the orange tip and the green veined white butterfly.

Cuckooflower has a rosette of leaves at its base and an upright stem that bears the delicate small pale pink or mauve flowers. The blooms appear in late spring to early summer just at the time as the first cuckoo starts to call. Pensylvanica does have divided leaves like cuckoo flower but its flowers are much smaller 1 8 to inch across and is a much more robust plant. Cardamine pratensis is one of the most beautiful and one of the best loved of our wild flowers.

Cuckoo flower for skin diseases take one ounce of fresh cuckoo flower leaves and flowers and steep it in one cup of boiling water for 18 minutes. It bears long narrow leaves and supremely elegant flowers two or three to each stem in white or with pink tomes. The flowers droop and close at night or during heavy rain. However both its round to kidney shaped basal leaves and upper stem leaves are simple not compound divided.

The specific name pratensis is latin for meadow. The flowers are usually veined with darker violet but in some areas pure white forms can be found.