Platycapnos tenuiloba – a Fumewort

Fumewort

Fumewort or Fumariaceae is a family of about 575 species of herbaceous plants in 20 genera, native to the Northern Hemisphere and South Africa.

Plants in the fumitory family are easily recognised by their peculiar flowers with two dissimilar pairs of petals. One or both of the outer petals is usually spurred, and the inner petals are connected at tip.

There are two types of flowers. A given genus has one type or the other. Dicentra has flowers with two planes of symmetry, and Corydalis has flowers with one plane of symmetry (zygomorphic).

Most species have compound leaves.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumariaceae - 31.10.2011

Fumewort

The blossom of Platycapnos tenuiloba receives a special character by its exceptional colour combination.

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