Capnoides

Pink corydalis
Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Papaveraceae
Subfamily: Fumarioideae
Tribe: Fumarieae
Subtribe: Fumariinae
Genus: Capnoides
Species: C. sempervirens
Binomial name
Capnoides sempervirens
(L.) Borkh.
Synonyms

Corydalis glauca Pursh
Corydalis sempervirens (L.) Pers.
Fumaria sempervirens L.

Capnoides sempervirens (pale corydalis, pink corydalis or rock harlequin) is an annual or biennial plant native to rocky woodland and burned or disturbed places in northern North America. Capnoides sempervirens is the only species in the genus Capnoides.

Description

Plants are 20–80 cm (7.9–31.5 in) tall. Both stems and leaves are glaucous. Leaves are 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in) in length, twice pinnately divided, usually segmented into 3 lobes and sometimes 4. Flowers are tubular, pink with a yellow tip, 1–1.7 cm (0.39–0.67 in) long, grouped into dangling clusters. Seeds are black and shiny, about 1 mm (0.039 in) wide, held tightly together in long thin cylindrical pods.

Flowers bloom from May to September. Often growing out of areas disturbed by fire. Native from Newfoundland to Alaska and south into the eastern United States.[1]

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References

  1. Kershaw, Linda (2002). Ontario Wildflowers. Canada: Lone Pine Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 1-55105-285-7.