Climbers List |
Poppy Family [Papaveraceae] |
25th April 2013, Caramanico Terme, Italy | Photo: © Angela McCardell |
Also occurs in the UK. Grows about a metre high. |
25th April 2013, Caramanico Terme, Italy | Photo: © Angela McCardell |
Flowers are creamy-white, often tinged pink. |
25th April 2013, Caramanico Terme, Italy | Photo: © Angela McCardell |
Many of the flowers (apart from those at the summit) are reflexed pointing downwards along the stem. [If they are white with beetroot-red tips and point outwards then it most likely is not White Ramping-fumitory, but possibly Common Ramping-Fumitory (Fumaria muralis)]. |
25th April 2013, Caramanico Terme, Italy | Photo: © Angela McCardell |
Flowers have a beetroot-red nearly black tip and small greyish-light-green trefoil-trefoil leaflets with a near circular profile. |
25th April 2013, Caramanico Terme, Italy | Photo: © Angela McCardell |
Flowers in a short upright spike. |
25th April 2013, Caramanico Terme, Italy | Photo: © Angela McCardell |
The creamy white flowers are light green in places. |
Western Ramping-fumitory (Left).
White Ramping-fumitory ssp. babingtonii (Right). |
Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
The babingtonii sub-species of White Ramping-fumitory can be confused with Western Ramping-Fumitory
Western Ramping-fumitory (Left).
Note the slight size differences too. |
26th June 2019, back alleyway, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
26th June 2019, back alleyway, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
26th June 2019, back alleyway, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
The leaves have flat lobes which are either oblong or wedge-shaped. |
26th June 2019, back alleyway, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
The flowers are 10 to 12mm long. The upper petal of which is laterally compressed. The stalks of the fruit are recurved (curve up before curving back down). |
26th June 2019, back alleyway, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
The wings of the flower do not conceal the keel (which is in the middle). The inflorescence is shorter than the flower stalk. |
26th June 2019, back alleyway, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
The bracts (to be seen just in the 'armpit' of the flower stalk (and hiding fairly well in these photos just beneath the flower stalk) as as long as or shorter than the flower stalk. |
Not to be semantically confused with : Round-Headed Rampion (Phyteuma orbiculare) nor with
Easily mistaken for : other Found mainly near the coast and some inland areas. The spur at the rear of the flower is a very short 2mm long. White Ramping-fumitory occurs as two sub-species:
If the stems are broken they seep a potentially poisonous white latex dangerous to get in the eye causing glaucoma, but no poisonings have been reported.
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Fumaria (Fumitories) |
Poppy Family [Papaveraceae] |