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Common Fumitory, Fumaria officinalis 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

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

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