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Fumaria vaillantii Loisel.

Earthsmoke (en), Fumeterre de Vaillant (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Papaveraceae > Fumaria

Characteristics

Herbs, 10-30 cm tall. Stems suberect to diffuse, branched and leafy throughout. Leaf lobes linear to narrowly lanceolate, to 1 mm wide. Raceme subsessile or shortly stalked, 10-20-flowered; bracts lanceolate, 1.5-3 mm, scarious. Sepals 0.5-1 mm, incised-dentate. Corolla pink or pale amaranth, darker at apex; upper petal 5-6 mm, margin dentate, apex obtuse-emarginate, spur rounded, 1-1.5 mm; lower petal spatulate, with short rounded to usually emarginate dentate limb; inner petals tipped with dark purple. Infructescence 2-5 cm; fruiting pedicels 3-4 mm, straight and ± thickened. Nut globose, ca. 2 mm, finely rugose. Fl. and fr. May-Aug. 2n = 32.
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A herb. It grows 10-30 cm tall. The leaf-segments are not channelled. The flowers are pale pink. The bracts are shorter than the flower-stalks.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination
Spread barochory myrmecochory
Mature width (meter) 0.3
Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.3
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AprMayJun
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows between 600-2,200 m above sea level in Tibet.
Light 6-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-8

Usage

Uses dye medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Biliary tract diseases (flower), Fever (flower), Skin diseases (flower), Hypotension (seed), Pain (seed), Abscess (unspecified), Adenopathy (unspecified), Aperient (unspecified), Carbuncle (unspecified), Cholagogue (unspecified), Depurative (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Jaundice (unspecified), Laxative (unspecified), Liver (unspecified), Sclerosis(Liver) (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Splinter (unspecified), Stomach (unspecified), Stomachic (unspecified), Struma (unspecified), Swelling (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Skin (unspecified), Alterative (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified), Sudorific (unspecified), Vermifuge (unspecified), Cancer (unspecified), Anodyne (unspecified), Astringent (unspecified), Dyspepsia (unspecified), Scrofula (unspecified), Anthelmintics (unspecified), Arteriosclerosis (unspecified), Constipation (unspecified), Diuretics (unspecified), Eczema (unspecified), Laxatives (unspecified), Parasympatholytics (unspecified), General tonic for rejuvenation (unspecified), Skin diseases (unspecified), Stomach diseases (unspecified), Diaphoretic (unspecified), Achlorhydria (unspecified), Anti-infective agents (unspecified), Antipyretics (unspecified), Astringents (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Leprosy (unspecified), Lipid peroxidation (unspecified), Scabies (unspecified), Anti-arrhythmia agents (whole plant), Arteriosclerosis (whole plant), Diaphoretic (whole plant), Muscular injury (whole plant), Antifungal agents (whole plant), Anti-inflammatory agents (whole plant), Antipsychotic agents (whole plant), Astringents (whole plant), Dyspepsia (whole plant), Hematologic diseases (whole plant), Laxatives (whole plant), Leprosy (whole plant), Psoriasis (whole plant), Skin diseases (whole plant)
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Cultivation

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Images

Habit

Fumaria vaillantii habit picture by Gamiz Antonio Miguel (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Fumaria vaillantii leaf picture by Bernhard Betz (cc-by-sa)
Fumaria vaillantii leaf picture by Barbara Figge (cc-by-sa)
Fumaria vaillantii leaf picture by Sabin Poenariu (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Fumaria vaillantii flower picture by Bernhard Betz (cc-by-sa)
Fumaria vaillantii flower picture by Bernhard Betz (cc-by-sa)
Fumaria vaillantii flower picture by Hansjörg Hagels (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Fumaria vaillantii world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Switzerland, China, Czech Republic, Algeria, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Georgia, Croatia, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nepal, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America, Uzbekistan, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:673141-1
WFO ID wfo-0000693480
COL ID 6JRPV
BDTFX ID 28580
INPN ID 99139
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Fumaria vaillantii f. longibracteata Fumaria officinalis Fumaria spicata Fumaria camerarii Fumaria tenuiflora Fumaria chavini Fumaria parviflora subsp. vaillantii Fumaria vaillantii var. maroccana Fumaria vaillantii

Lower taxons

Fumaria vaillantii var. schrammii
WorldFloraDB 2024