- Author: Guy B Kyser
Published on: April 15, 2013
This is a new-to-me weed, even though it's growing all around Robbins Hall where I've been working since typewriter times. Fumitory (Fumaria spp.) is a lacy, vine-like annual native to Europe. Looks sort of like parsley, though it's not related. It doesn't have tendrils, but it has 'grabby' foliage, and it drapes over other plants and fences by coiling its stem ends. Fumitory is in the poppy family (Papaveraceae). Its flowers are small, white to purplish, and bilateral in axillary racemes.
I figured out what this was by using this weed ID tool available through the Weed Research & Information Center.
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Comments: 2
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by Carri Pirosko
on April 16, 2013 at 7:42 AM
Thank you Guy for your recent posting, I truly enjoy your blog posts. I share them around with SW Oregon weed partners.
by Trina Lopez
on March 2, 2014 at 3:27 PM
Thanks for your post! This helped me positively identify a plant that has taken over a big patch of my backyard. It seems to thrive in the low rain conditions we've been having in CA. All the other weeds that used to be in the same area went dormant. I'm in SF.
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