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[Neckeria Scop. Introd. 313. I777.] [Corydalis Medic. Phil. Bot. 96. 1789.]
Erect or climbing herbs, with basal and cauline decompound leaves, and racemose flowers, terminal, or opposite the petioles. Sepals 2, small. Corolla irregular, deciduous; petals 4, erect-connivent, one of the outer pairs spurred at the base, the interior ones narrow, keeled on the back. Stamens 6, in 2 sets, opposite the outer petals. Placentae 2; style entire, dilated or lobed, persistent. Capsule linear or oblong, 2-valved. [Greek, smoke-like, in allusion to the smoke-like odor of some species, as in Fumaria.]
About no species, natives of the north temperate zone and South Africa. Type species: Fumaria sembervirens L.
1. | C. sempervirens. | |
Stems low, diffuse or ascending; flowers yellow. | ||
Flowers 3"-4" long; spur short. | ||
Seeds sharp-margined, wrinkled; pods drooping or spreading. | 2. | C. flavulum. |
Seeds blunt-margined, smooth, shining; pods ascending. | 3. | C. micranthum. |
Flowers 6"-8" long; spur conspicuous. | . | |
Pods smooth. | ||
Seeds smooth or obscurely reticulated; pods spreading, ascending or pendulous. |
Capsules spreading or drooping, distinctly torulose; eastern. | 4. | C. aureum. |
Capsules ascending, terete or slightly torulose; western. | 5. | C. montanum. |
Seeds finely reticulated; pods ascending. | 6. | C. campestre. |
Pods densely covered with transparent vesicles. | 7. | C. crvstallinum. |
Fig. 1989
Fumaria sempervirens L. Sp. Pl. 700. 1753.
Capnoides sempervirens Borck. in Roem. Arch. 1: Part 2, 44. 1797.
Corydalis sempervirens Pers. Syn. 2: 269. 1807.
Corydalis glauca Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 463. 1814.
Glabrous, glaucous, erect or ascending, 5'-2o high, freely-branching. Lower leaves 1'-4' long, short-petioled, the upper nearly sessile, pinnately decompound, the primary divisions distant, the ultimate segments obovate or cuneate, toothed or entire, obtuse, often mucronulate; flowers numerous, panicled, borne in cymose clusters at the ends of the branches, 5"-8" long, pink or rarely white, with a yellow tip; spur rounded, about 1" long; capsules narrowly linear, erect, 1'-2' long, nodose when mature; seeds shining, minutely reticulated.
In rocky places, Nova Scotia to Alaska, Georgia, Minnesota, Montana and British Columbia. Ascends to 4500 ft. in North Carolina. Roman wormwood. April-Sept.
 
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