Lady's Smock (Cardamine pratensis)

Apologies for another flower picture! However, I needed to buy some milk on the way home and enough time to cut the lawns for the first time this year before we get any rain - which I did. So I made a quick stop near Warnham and found lots of wild flowers growing in the hedgerow along the lane that I sometimes stop off and go for a walk, there being a useful layby.

Also known as Cuckoo Flower as it is supposed to come out when the Cuckoo starts to sing in earnest, according to my book, Lady's Smock is common on field edges, hedgerows and so on from March to June. This is also the food plant for the Orange Tip Butterfly and although common over many parts of the UK, is actually under threat in some parts of Europe, particularly in Germany. The flowers are generally pink, but can vary from a darker pink to white. There were certainly no Cuckoos in evidence but plenty of the usual songbirds!