Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Fumaria capreolata
Common name
Climbing Fumitory, White Fumitory, Ramping Fumitory, White-flowered Fumitory
Family
Papaveraceae
Where found
Urban bushland, woodland, gardens, roadsides, disturbed sites, waste areas, coastal sites, and near streams. Mainly Sydney area. Occasionally elsewhere. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Introduced annual herb with trailing stems, sometimes climbing, to 1 m long. Hairless, often glaucous. Leaves alternating up the stems, appearing compound, deeply dissected, with about 3-9 segments, the largest ultimate segments flat, often more than 5 mm long, 2-5 mm wide. Flowers 10–14 mm long, with 2 white sepals, one on either side of the flower, which are shed early, and 4 petals, white or cream with purplish or blackish-red tips, gradually turning pink after pollination, forming 2 lips. Some smaller flowers self-pollinate without opening. Flowers in clusters of up to 20 flowers, the clusters shorter than or about equal to the stalk. Flowers mostly Sep.–Nov.
Was Fumaria capreolata subsp. capreolata.
Family was Fumariaceae.
PlantNET description (as Fumaria capreolata subsp. capreolata): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Fumaria~capreolata (accessed 17 January, 2021)
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