Flowers with intact sepals, and leaves. Photo: Dean Wm Taylor, California, USA

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Perth, WA

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Perth, WA

Common Name

Climbing Fumitory, White Fumitory, White-flowered Fumitory, Ramping Fumitory

Family

Papaveraceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb with trailing or climbing stems to 1m long. Leaves alternating up the stems, hairless, lobed, the lobes again lobed, the lobes flat, often 3-5mm wide. Leaves appearing compound, with about 3-9 leaflets. Flowers tubular, with 2 white sepals, one on either side of the flower, which are shed, and 4 petals (white or cream with purplish tips, gradually turning pink after pollination) forming 2 lips. Some smaller flowers self-pollinate without opening. Racemes of 9-20 flowers on stalks arising from the bases of the leaves. Fumaria capreolata ssp. capreolata in NSW. Family Fumariaceae in NSW.

Differs from Fumaria bastardii and Fumaria muralis in that the inflorescence is much shorter than the relatively long stalk.

Description and photo (as Fumaria capreolata ssp. capreolata) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 314

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Fumaria~capreolata