Irish wildflowers sitemap




Tall Ramping-fumitory
Fumaria bastardii
Camán searraigh ard
Family: Fumariaceae

Flowering time: May-September. Annual. Introduced.

Pale pink or pink flowers. More than 15 in racemes longer than stalk below first flower. Lower petal slightly spoon-shaped. Sepals with forward-pointing sharp
teeth all round margins. Fruit rough when dry, broad-ovate, truncate base.
Scrambling, sprawling to 1m. Very similar to Common Ramping-fumitory.

Free-draining acidic arable, horticultural and waste ground, field edges.
Most frequent, NE, E, S Ireland.
Identification: Paul Green, Co.Wexford.
     


    



Above: Tall Ramping-fumitory. Inchigeela, Co.Cork. April 2007

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