Family: Fumariaceae Common Fumitory Fumaria officinalis Flowering time: May-October. Annual. Archaeophyte Usually found on dry, disturbed, calcareos soils on arable land, wasteground and in gardens and allotments The racemes of light reddish-purple flowers are longer than their stalks and the flowers have dark purple tips and irregularly toothed sepals. Fruit sometimes weakly notched at the tip. Grey-green leaves with narrow, flat leaflets on weak, scrambling or erect stems. All the Fumitories can be very similar and often difficult to identify

Common Fumitory, Fumaria officinalis
Badbury Rings, Dorset. August 2016