cardamine

Beneath the trees grow clumps of pale cardamine andwild geranium, fragrant blue phlox, ferny gold corydalis, maroon trilliums, and dainty clumps of wild wood violets.

My Garden, part 1 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

There was a marsh marigold in it, with stems a quarter of an inch thick; and in the grass on the verge, but just beyond where the flood reached, grew the lilac-tinted cuckoo flowers, or cardamine.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

With flowers it is the same; the lesser celandine, the marsh marigold, the silvery cardamine, appear first in one particular spot, and may be gathered there before a petal has opened elsewhere.

Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

The draining, indeed, has made it more comfortable to walk about on, and some of the rougher grasses have gone from the furrows, diminishing at the same time the number of cardamine flowers; but of these there are hundreds by the side of every tiny rivulet of water, and the aquatic grasses flourish in every ditch.

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

Walking through the grass, and thinking of the dew and the beautiful morning sunshine, I scarcely noticed the quantity of cuckoo-flowers, or cardamine, till presently it occurred to me that it was very late in the season for cuckoo-flowers and stooping I picked one, and in the act saw it was an orchis -- the early purple.

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

(cardamine), in which the seed-vessels, by an elastic jerk at the moment of their explosion, cast the seeds to a distance.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

(cardamine), in which the seed-vessels, by an elastic jerk at the moment of their explosion, cast the seeds to a distance.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861