lady's-smock

Further down, below the moor, the laneside verge was bright with lady's-smock, the so-called cuckooflower that blooms when the first cuckoo calls.

Country Diary: North Derbyshire 2011

The reaches of the river were spangled with white ranunculus, the marshy places were starred with lady's-smock and lit with marsh-mallow wherever the regiments of the sedges lowered their swords, and the northward-moving hippopotami, shiny black monsters, sporting clumsily, came floundering and blundering through it all, rejoicing dimly and possessed with one clear idea, to splash the river muddy.

Tales of Space and Time 1906

It contained a leaf of lady's-smock, a mussel-shell, and two fish-bones.

The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878

And lilac lady's-smock, -- but let them bloom alone, and leave

Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1877

Dowsabell went forth to gather honeysuckle and lady's-smock nearly three centuries since.

Round About a Great Estate Richard Jefferies 1867

One which was marshy was white for weeks together with the lady's-smock or cuckoo-flower.

Round About a Great Estate Richard Jefferies 1867

"This pale flower, and that with the green flowers and the great leaves, are lady's-smock and lady's-mantle; they say they are named after the

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870