Capnoides

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Pink corydalis

Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Ranunculales
Family:	Papaveraceae
Subfamily:	Fumarioideae
Tribe:	Fumarieae
Subtribe:	Corydalinae
Genus:	Capnoides Mill.
Species:	C. sempervirens
Binomial name
*Capnoides sempervirens* (L.) Borkh. (1797)
Synonyms
Corydalis glauca Pursh Corydalis sempervirens (L.) Pers. Fumaria sempervirens L.

Capnoides sempervirens, the harlequin corydalis,^[1] rock harlequin,^[2] 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.

Name(s) brought to synonymy

Capnoides elegans Kuntze, a synonym for Corydalis elegans

Description

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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.^[3]

Gallery

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Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario
Illustration from The Botanical Magazine Vol. 5, 1792 (as Fumaria glauca)

External links

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Flora of North America — map
Connecticut Botanical Society Archived 2007-04-26 at the Wayback Machine

References

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^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
^ NRCS. "Corydalis sempervirens". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 17 January 2016.
^ Kershaw, Linda (2002). Ontario Wildflowers. Canada: Lone Pine Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 1-55105-285-7.

Taxon identifiers
Capnoides	Wikidata: Q5748608 Wikispecies: Capnoides BOLD: 497098 CoL: 3H42 EPPO: 1QPNG GBIF: 7314747 GRIN: 2050 iNaturalist: 204134 IPNI: 30027625-2 IRMNG: 1352451 NCBI: 54439 Open Tree of Life: 978872 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:31628-1 VASCAN: 946 WFO: wfo-4000006598
Corydalis sempervirens	Wikidata: Q1478395 Wikispecies: Capnoides sempervirens BOLD: 196509 CoL: YPKG EPPO: COYSE EUNIS: 175377 FEIS: corsem FNA: 233500447 GBIF: 5334197 GRIN: 11633 IPNI: 672496-1 IRMNG: 10731736 ITIS: 19010 NatureServe: 2.138234 NBN: NBNSYS0200003630 Observation.org: 144009 PLANTS: COSE5 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:672496-1 Tropicos: 24000010 WFO: wfo-0000622868

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