Seasonal Wild Flowers

White Ramping-fumitory

Fumaria capreolata

Fumariaceae

Ramping Fumitory

April to November

It is found round the the coast and is thinly scattered

inland.

See the BSBI distribution map for White Ramping-fumitory

White Ramping-fumitory grows in scrub, on cliffs and

hedge banks and by footpaths and tracks.

It is a native, scrambling, climbing, annual herb growing

up to 1m.

The flowerheads are stalked spikes.

Flowers have bent pedicels (flower stalks) and white

toothed sepals.

The main flower tube (corolla) is white to pink and up to

12mm.

Corolla tips are blackish-red.

Leaves are pale green with kidney shaped lobes.

The stalks (petioles) of the leaves help the plant to climb.

Flowerhead and upper leaves

Flowerhead - white toothed sepals

Curved pedicels (flower stalks)

Leaves