Scientific Name: Fumaria officinalis
Common Name: fumitory
Family Name: Papaveraceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 1: (below -46 °C)
Plant Type: Annual (true), Weed (horticultural)
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading
Form: Creeping / Mat-like
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses:
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Lobed, Compound, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Tripinnate, Ovate, Spatulate, Dentate, Incised
Flowers: Raceme, Pink, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct
Fruit: Nut, Green, Brown, Jun-Jul
Key ID Features:
Stems angular in c.s., hairless, prostrate or partially climbing; leaves alternate, deeply divided, finely pinnately dissected, the ultimate segments oblanceolate, rounded into lobed segments; racemes 3-8cm long with 10-20 flowers 7-8mm long, pink-purple with a 4mm spur from corolla with other tips darker reddish-purple.