Common name:
White ramping-fumitory
Family:
Scientific name:
Fumaria capreolata
Main flower color:
Range:
Mostly in Wales and southwest England, often coastal; also in other scattered locations
Height:
Up to 90 cm
Habitat:
Fields, waste ground, old walls
Flowers:
Dense clusters at the top of the stem, with the flowers, around 14 mm long, angled strongly downwards. Flowers have two partly fused inner petals and two narrow, linear, outer petals, similar in length, mostly all-white but reddish-purple at the tip, and a pair of white, ovate sepals at the base, finely fringed around the margin. The sepals are about a third as long as the petals
Leaves:
Hairless, light green, two or three times pinnate; divided into rounded lobes which have a tiny spike at the tip
Season:
April to July
Rarity:
★★★★★
