The cuckoo flower is a small plant with white petals that we can admire not during Pentecost, as the name would lead you to suspect, but just a little before that time. The species is common in the Netherlands and Belgium in grasslands, forests and marshes.
Although the species is still common, the cuckoo has declined rapidly. These flowers used to color pink or purple but with intensive agriculture they are now mainly seen along the edges.
The cuckoo flower is also called foamweed from the German "Wiesen-Schaumkraut". This is because the insect the foam beetle prefers this plant.
Whitflower is full of vitamin C and was therefore used against spring fatigue.
Latin name: Cardamine pratensis
Photography by Denise Tiggelman
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