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Cardamine pratensis

  • Family name: Brassicaceae
  • Common name: cuckoo flower
  • Growth form: Forb
  • Names used on the Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
    • Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map: Cardamine pratensis
    • Arctic Alaska Tundra Vegetation Map: Cardamine pratensis

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  1. Cardamine pratensis    , cuckoo flower
  2. Collected flowering plant
    August, 1986 Nunavut, Baffin Island, Nettilling Lake, Burwash Bay, Canada
    Image author: S.G. Aiken, C. Campbell and E. Robinson
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Cardamine pratensis    , cuckoo flower
  2. Flower with four pale pink petals, four anthers at anthesis, and one developing anther of the second whorl visible at the base of the gynoecium that has a capitate stigma.
    7/26/1997 Nunavut, Victoria Island, Flagstaff Point, Canada
    Image author: L.L. Consaul and L.J. Gillespie ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Cardamine pratensis    , cuckoo flower
  2. inflorescence. Racemose inflorescence with lowest flower open to show four pale pink petals, sand side views of two buds with darker pink petals.
    7/26/1997 Nunavut, Victoria Island, Flagstaff Point, Canada
    Image author: L.L. Consaul and L.J. Gillespie ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Cardamine pratensis    , cuckoo flower
  2. Plants growing in a sheltered gully
    7/27/1981 N.W.T., Banks Island, Sachs Harbour, Canada
    Image author: J.M. Gillett ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Cardamine pratensis    , cuckoo flower
  2. Plants growing in the lush vegetation of a wet sedge meadow. 69?03'N, 105?05'W. Plants 10 cm tall. Elevation 5-10 metres.
    7/26/1997 Nunavut, Victoria Island, Flagstaff Point, Canada
    Image author: L.L. Consaul and L.J. Gillespie ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image