White Ramping-fumitory - Fumaria capreolata subsp. capreolata
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Species Description
Very rare and scattered throughout the UK. 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. capreolata.
Bracts usually shorter than fruiting pedicels; fruit about 2 x 2mm, with rounded to very obtuse apex; 2n=56. Channel Islands; the continental subspecies, rarely recorded in Britain (mostly England), but probably only as casual and often misidentified.