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Cuckooflower

Cardamine pratensis

25,770Records since 2000
MayPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan12
Feb32
Mar493
Apr8,667
May9,395
Jun2,975
Jul968
Aug595
Sep296
Oct84
Nov39
Dec17

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,831
2North Yorkshire England719
3Cumbria England700
4Highland Scotland617
5Norfolk England611
6Devon England539
7Argyll and Bute Scotland536
8Powys Wales493
9Sefton England488
10Herefordshire, County of England459
11Sheffield England340
12Somerset England333
13Surrey England303
14Gloucestershire England297
15Oxfordshire England290
13,148 England2,301 Scotland1,276 Wales235 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
25,770
Peak month
May
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Cardamine pratensis
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
55,929
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Cardamine
Name with authority
Cardamine pratensis L.
Contributing datasets
59

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q27490 · GBIF 7972010