Capnoides

Pink corydalis
File:Rock harlequin flower and leaves.jpg
Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
Order:	Ranunculales
Family:	Papaveraceae
Subfamily:	Fumarioideae
Tribe:	Fumarieae
Subtribe:	Fumariinae
Genus:	Capnoides
Species:	C. sempervirens
Binomial name
Capnoides sempervirens (L.) Borkh.
Synonyms
Corydalis glauca Pursh Corydalis sempervirens (L.) Pers. Fumaria sempervirens L.

Capnoides sempervirens, the harlequin corydalis, rock harlequin, pale corydalis or pink corydalis, is an annual or biennial plant native to rocky woodland and burned or disturbed places in northern North America. Capnoides sempervirens is the only species in the genus Capnoides.

Description

Plants are 20–80 cm (7.9–31.5 in) tall. Both stems and leaves are glaucous. Leaves are 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in) in length, twice pinnately divided, usually segmented into 3 lobes and sometimes 4. Flowers are tubular, pink with a yellow tip, 1–1.7 cm (0.39–0.67 in) long, grouped into dangling clusters. Seeds are black and shiny, about 1 mm (0.039 in) wide, held tightly together in long thin cylindrical pods.

Flowers bloom from May to September. Often growing out of areas disturbed by fire. Native from Newfoundland to Alaska and south into the eastern United States.

Gallery

• Pink Corydalis.jpg

  Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario

• The Botanical Magazine, Plate 179 (Volume 5, 1792).png

  Illustration from The Botanical Magazine Vol. 5, 1792 (as Fumaria glauca)

External links

• Germplasm Resources Information Network
• Flora of North America — map
• Connecticut Botanical Society