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Fumaria officinalis
Also called Drug fumitory, Fumitory, Earth Smoke, Hedge Fumitory, Wax Dolls
Common fumitory is a low, scrambling annual wildflower of the poppy family, found in arable fields, hedgerows and waste ground. It is a weed of disturbed soil rather than a garden plant, and it grows readily from seed in open sunny spots.
Fumaria officinalis, the common fumitory, drug fumitory or earth smoke, is a herbaceous annual flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae. It is the most common species of the genus Fumaria in Western and Central Europe.
It is native to temperate regions of North Africa, Europe and parts of Western Asia.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fumaria officinalis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
