Common name: Wall Fumitory, Fumitory
Fumaria muralis Sond. ex W.Koch APNI* 
Description: Delicate, much-branched herb.
Leaves variously pinnatisect, segments flat, ± lanceolate to ovate, >2 mm wide.
Inflorescence at least as long as peduncle, usually <15-flowered; bracts half to about as long as the ± erect fruiting pedicels. Sepals usually 3–5 mm long. Corolla mostly 9–10 mm long, pink-red with tips of inner petals and wings or upper petal blackish red; upper petal dorsally compressed. Cleistogamous flowers often much smaller.
Fruit mostly smooth when dry.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: widespread weed of waste places and cultivated areas. Native of Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *SWP, *LHI
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *S.A. *W.A.
Fumaria formerly placed in family Fumariaceae.
Text by G.J. Harden
Taxon concept:
| N.S.W. occurrences are: subsp. muralis |
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