Additional notes (click to expand)

Medicinal

Listed as a 'simple' for making medicine.
Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, (1817). Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburghensis. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute; and others. p.9

Gerard says watercress (Nasturtium officinale), garden cress (Lepidium sativum), brooklime (Veronica beccabunga), and cardamine (bitter cress, cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis and other ) may be as good as Cochlearia in treating scurvy.
Gerard, J. (1975). The Herbal or General History of Plants. New York: Fascimile Dover Publications Inc .

Nomenclature

Formerly grown as C. pratensis.

Geographical distribution

  • Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Turkey
  • Europe, Eastern Europe, Central European Russia
  • Europe, Eastern Europe, Ukraine
  • Europe, Southeastern Europe, Bulgaria
  • Europe, Southeastern Europe, Romania
  • Europe, Southeastern Europe, Turkey-in-Europe

Cardamine quinquefolia (M.Bieb.) Schmalh.

Family: BRASSICACEAE
Genus: Cardamine
Species: quinquefolia (M.Bieb.) Schmalh.
Common names: Lady's Smock; Milkmaid
Distribution summary: Europe
Habit: Perennial
Hardiness: H6 - Hardy; very cold winter
Habitat: Moist woodland and riverbanks
Garden status: Currently grown
Garden location: Plants of the World (C)
Flowering months: March
Reason for growing: Medicinal


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