Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Purple Ramping-fumitory, Fumaria purpurea, Camán searraigh corcra
Photographs: Dungarvan, Co. Waterford

Purple Ramping-fumitory
Fumaria purpurea
Camán searraigh corcra
Family: Fumariaceae

Flowering May-September. Annual. Native.

Purple-pink flowers, the upper petal with a narrow erect margin and the sepals large in proportion to flower, more/less oblong, entire or toothed. Mature flowers and fruiting stalks are recurved. Scrambling growth.

Rare, mainly east and south-east Ireland on waste, arable and cultivated ground and roadsides. Identified by Paul Green

Similar: Common Ramping-fumitory, Fumaria muralis

Purple Ramping-fumitory, Fumaria purpurea, Camán searraigh corcra

Purple Ramping-fumitory, Fumaria purpurea, Camán searraigh corcra
Purple Ramping-fumitory, Purple Ramping-fumitory, Fumaria purpurea, Camán searraigh corcra, Camán searraigh corcra

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