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Widespread but patchy and local throughout the UK, mainly confined to the coast. Habitat includes: gardens, parks, allotments, churchyards, scrub, arable fields, hedge-banks, roadside verges, wasteland, old walls, coastal cliffs, shingle etc. Growing habit: Annual. Height: Up to 1 m. Flowers: May to September (but can be as early as January).

Stace 4:

Fumaria capreolata L. - White Ramping-fumitory.

Flowers 10-13(14)mm, usually creamy-white suffused with pink, rarely reddish; upper petal with narrow spreading margins; sepals 4-6 x (2)2.5-3(4)mm, dentate mostly near base; fruit 2-2.5 x 2.5mm, orbicular, more or less smooth when dry. Native; arable and waste ground and hedges. The 2 subspecies are rather doubtfully distinct.

Key:

• Fruiting pedicels rigidly recurved to patent; sepals 4-6(6.5)mm
• Petals usually creamy-white, sometimes pink to red; upper petal with spreading margins not concealing dorsal ridge

Useful Links:

Naturespot

Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora

Wild Flower Finder

UK SOUTHWEST

First Nature

Flora of Northern Ireland

Malta Wild Plants

wikipedia

Kew

GBIF

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NBN