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Widespread and fairly frequent throughout the UK becoming scarcer in North West Scotland, Northern England, parts of the South East and East Midlands. Habitat includes: Disturbed places with mainly calcareous bare soil such as wasteland, spoil heaps, arable fields, tips, roadside verges, gardens, parks, allotments, churchyards etc. Growing Habit: Scrambling Annual. Height: Up to 50 cm. Flowers: May to October. Other names include: Drug Fumitory, Earth Smoke. There are 2 subspecies and 4 varieties: Fumaria officinalis subsp. officinalis, Fumaria officinalis subsp. wirtgenii, Fumaria officinalis officinalis elegans (0 records), Fumaria officinalis officinalis officinalis (5 records), Fumaria officinalis wirtgenii minor (14 records), Fumaria officinalis wirtgenii wirtgenii (17 records). ID: Flowers are 5 - 6 mm; sepals 0.5 - 1 mm, narrower than corolla; lower petal spathulate; fruits truncate to retuse at apex and distinctly wider than long. Life story:Germination occurs in the spring, and the seed bank is long-lived. Native to: European Southern-temperate region.

• Fumaria agragia x

• Fumaria bastardii (Tall Ramping-fumitory) var. bastardii var. gussonei x var. hibernica (Tall Ramping-Fumitory)

• Fumaria capreolata (White Ramping-fumitory) Subsp: Fumaria capreolata capreolata speciosa Fumaria capreolata subsp. babingtonii Fumaria capreolata subsp. capreolata variety: Fumaria capreolata babingtonii babingtonii Fumaria capreolata babingtonii devoniensis

• Fumaria densiflora (Dense-flowered Fumitory) x

• Fumaria muralis (Common Ramping-fumitory) subsp: Fumaria muralis subsp. boraei (Boreau's Ramping-fumitory) Fumaria muralis subsp. muralis Fumaria muralis subsp. neglecta variety: Fumaria muralis boraei boraei Fumaria muralis boraei brittanica Fumaria muralis boraei major Fumaria muralis muralis cornubiensis Fumaria muralis muralis muralis

• Fumaria occidentalis (Western Ramping-fumitory) x

• Fumaria officinalis (Common Fumitory) / subsp: Fumaria officinalis subsp. officinalis Fumaria officinalis subsp. wirtgenii variety: Fumaria officinalis officinalis elegans Fumaria officinalis officinalis officinalis Fumaria officinalis wirtgenii minor Fumaria officinalis wirtgenii wirtgenii

• Fumaria parviflora (Fine-leaved Fumitory) x variety: Fumaria parviflora var. acuminata Fumaria parviflora var. parviflora Fumaria parviflora var. symei

• Fumaria purpurea (Purple Ramping-fumitory) x

  Fumaria reuteri (Martin's Ramping-fumitory)
  
  Fumaria vaillantii (Few-flowered Fumitory) x
  

species hybrid:

Fumaria bastardii x muralis
Fumaria muralis x officinalis = F. x painteri
Fumaria officinalis x densiflora
Fumaria officinalis x parviflora