White Ramping-fumitory - Fumaria capreolata subsp. babingtonii
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Species Description
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:
Ssp. babingtonii (Pugsley) P.D. Sell.
Bracts more or less equalling fruiting pedicels; fruit about 2.5x2.5mm, with truncate apex; 2n=64. Scattered over much of Britain and Ireland, mainly near coasts, but absent from most of Scotland and East England, the few records from Channel Islands need checking; endemic.