''Fumaria capreolata'', the white ramping fumitory or climbing fumitory, is an herbaceous

annual plant An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies. The length of growing seasons and period in which they take place vary according to geographical ...

in the poppy family Papaveraceae. It is native to Europe, western Asia and northern Africa and naturalised in southern Australia, New Zealand, and southern South America. Common names include also ramping fumitory, white fumitory, and white-flower fumitory.

Description

Plants have stems to 1 metre long and sometimes climb. The leaves are pinnatisect. Inflorescences comprise up to 20 purple-tipped white to cream flowers that appear in spring and summer. These gradually become pink after

pollination Pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther of a plant to the stigma of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind. Pollinating agents can be animals such as insects, birds ...

. Unlike other ''

Fumaria ''Fumaria'' (fumitory or fumewort, from Latin ', "smoke of the earth") is a genus of about 60 species of annual flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae. The genus is native to Europe, Africa and Asia, most diverse in the Mediterranean regi ...

'' species which are known as weeds of crops and agricultural areas, ''Fumaria capreolata'' can become naturalised in areas of natural vegetation and smother low-growing plants, becoming an

environmental weed An invasive species otherwise known as an alien is an introduced organism that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment. Although most introduced species are neutral or beneficial with respect to other species, invasive species ad ...

References

External links

GBIF: ''Fumaria capreolata'' occurrence data map & photos.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 27 August 2018.

Queensland Government. capreolata Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Flora of Malta {{Papaveraceae-stub