Fumaria officinalis L., 1753

Common names

• 🇬🇧 Common Fumitory
• 🇫🇷 Fumeterre officinale, Herbe à la veuve

Taxonomy

• Kingdom: Plantae
• Clade: Tracheophytes
• Clade: Angiosperms
• Clade: Eudicots
• Order: Ranunculales
• Family: Papaveraceae
• Subfamily: Fumarioideae
• Tribe: Fumariieae
• Genus: Fumaria
• Species: Fumaria officinalis

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

• Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with F. densiflora DC., 1813 or F. muralis Koch, 1845, whose flowers have sepals wider than the corolla, while those of F. officinalis have sepals narrower than the corolla.

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

• F. officinalis subsp. officinalis L., 1753, P;
• F. officinalis subsp. ragusina (Pugsley) Lidén, 2002.

Hybridizes with F. capreolata L., 1753 to produce F. × franchetii E.G.Camus, 1896, P.

Photographs

Sources

• Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 875). Biotope.