Cardamine trifolia, the trefoil cress, trifoliate bittercress, or three-leaved cuckoo flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae.[2][3] It is native to central and southern Europe, and has been introduced to Great Britain.[1] It appears to have spread from glacial refugia in the Austrian Alps, the western Carpathians, and a part of northern Italy extending into the Dinaric Alps of the former Yugoslavia.[4] A creeping perennial, in the garden it is recommended as a ground cover in shady areas.[2][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Cardamine |
| Species: | C. trifolia
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References
edit- ^ a b "Cardamine trifolia L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ^ a b "Cardamine trifolia". Plant Finder. Missouri Botanical Garden. 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
Common Name: trifoliate bittercress
- ^ a b "Cardamine trifolia three-leaved cuckoo flower". The Royal Horticultural Society. 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
Other common names; trefoil cress
- ^ Willner, Wolfgang; Wessely, Johannes; Gattringer, Andreas; Moser, Dietmar; Záveská, Eliška; Dullinger, Stefan; Schönswetter, Peter; Hülber, Karl (2023). "Post-glacial range formation of temperate forest understorey herbs – Insights from a spatio-temporally explicit modelling approach". Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32 (7): 1046–1058. Bibcode:2023GloEB..32.1046W. doi:10.1111/geb.13677. PMC 10947399. PMID 38504871. S2CID 258073660.
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