Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 700 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Common fumitory.

Description:
Herb with branches 2-4 mm thick, usually little-branched mainly from the base.

Racemes longer than the delicate to robust peduncle, with 10-28 flowers often quite loosely arranged; bracts 1.5-2.5 mm long, about half as long as to as long as the flowering pedicels; sepals 1.5-3.5 x c. 1.5 mm, dentate, pink; petals (incl. spur) 7-9 mm long, pink to purple and with the apex of the dorsal and two lateral petals purplish-black.

Fruit on erect pedicels, c. 2.5 X 3 mm, globose with a flattened or indented apex, scarcely keeled.

Published illustration: Ross-Craig (1948) Drawings Brit. Pl. 2:pl. 20.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to Europe and the Mediterranean. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: A very variable species of which mainly the more delicate subsp. wirtgenii occurs in S.Aust. but also a few records of subsp. officinalis from the Northern and Southern Lofty regions have been collected. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish the two subspecies. P.D. Sell (1964) Fl. Europaea 1:258, described them:

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