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Earthsmoke

Fumaria vaillantii

Also called Few Flowered Fumitory, Few Flower Fumitory

Earthsmoke
Photo: Rolf Engstrand, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Papaveraceae (Poppy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Europe, Medit. to Xinjiang and India
Climate
temperate

About

Fumaria vaillantii, or earthsmoke, is a species of perennial herb in the poppy family (Papaveraceae). It was first described by the French botanist Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps in 1809.

Where it grows

Fumaria vaillantii is distributed over a vast area covering most of centra and southern Europe, northern Africa, south and southwest Asia, reaching as far east as Xinjiang province. In the north it reaches the Baltic states. It is considered to be introduced in Sweden, Finnland, UK, US and Bangladesh.

Other Fumaria plants

Fumaria abyssinica · Field Fumitory · Fumaria barnolae · Tall Ramping Fumitory · Two Coloured Fumitory · White ramping fumitory · Dense Flowered Fumitory · Southern Ramping Fumitory · Italian Fumitory · Common ramping-fumitory · Western fumitory · Common Fumitory

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fumaria vaillantii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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