Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Common Ramping-fumitory, Fumaria muralis, Camán searraigh balla
Photographs: Macroom, Co. Cork

Common Ramping-fumitory
Fumaria muralis
Camán searraigh balla
Family: Fumariaceae

Flowering time: April-October. Annual. Introduced.

Purplish-pink flowers with a reddish-black apex and toothed sepals in few-flowered, lax racemes. The lower petal has erect margins and the fruit are smooth. Leaves are a waxy pale green and much divided. A very variable slender plant with a spreading/scrambling growth habit.

Occurs on free-draining acidic ground in gardens, arable and waste ground. Less frequent in west of Ireland. Identified by Paul Green, BSBI

Similar: Tall Ramping-fumitory, Fumaria bastardii

Common Ramping-fumitory, Fumaria muralis, Camán searraigh balla

Common Ramping-fumitory, Fumaria muralis, Camán searraigh balla
Common Ramping-fumitory, Fumaria muralis, Camán searraigh balla

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