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the_count
19-May-08, 20:03
saw these growing in a marshy field and was wondering what they are, anyone out there care to identify it? the flowers are on very tall stems with about 20 flowers per head and each floret was about 10 mm across but very pretty.

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll318/countlicker/plants%20and%20stuff/P1040203.jpg

Kenn
19-May-08, 20:37
I knonw them by their country name of "Milkmaids" ,"Cuckoo Flowers," "Ladies Smocks," but their botanical name is Cardamine pretensis a mamber of the brassica family.

the_count
19-May-08, 21:56
thank you for that Lizzie thats the one lol i never railised that a member of the cabbage family could be so pretty and dainty