Photographs: Dungarvan, Co. Waterford

Purple Ramping-fumitory Fumaria purpurea Camán searraigh corcra Family: Fumariaceae Flowering May-September. Annual. Native. Purple-pink flowers, the upper petal with a narrow erect margin and the sepals large in proportion to flower, more/less oblong, entire or toothed. Mature flowers and fruiting stalks are recurved. Scrambling growth. Rare, mainly east and south-east Ireland on waste, arable and cultivated ground and roadsides. Identified by Paul Green Similar: Common Ramping-fumitory, Fumaria muralis

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