Fumaria officinalis L.

Tufted or scrambling annual herb. Lvs crowded to distant; lamina dissected, pale, glaucous, up to 8 × 4 cm; segments linear or linear-lanceolate, occasionally narrowly cuneiform. Infl. dense, becoming lax at fruiting, with (10)–20–40 fls; rachis > peduncle, especially at fruiting. Peduncles stout, 1–3 cm long; bracts oblong, pale, membranous, pink at tips, < pedicels, 1–2 × 0.5–0.8 mm. Sepals ovate to narrow-ovate, dentate, acute, 2–2.5 × 0.7–1 mm. Corolla purplish pink with dark green and purple tips, (6)–7–8–(9) mm long; lower petal spoon-shaped with widely-spreading margins at tip. Fr. broadly obovoid, broader than long, c. 2 × 2.5 mm, rugose when dry; apex truncate to retuse; apical pits small.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: (Sep.)–Oct.–Nov.–(May); Fruiting: (Sep.)–Oct.–Nov.–(May)