Capnoides

Capnoides sempervirens, the harlequin corydalis,^[1] rock harlequin,^[2] pale corydalis or pink corydalis, is an annual or biennial plant native to rocky woodland and burned or disturbed places in northern North America. Capnoides sempervirens is the only species in the genus Capnoides.

Name(s) brought to synonymy

• Capnoides elegans Kuntze, a synonym for Corydalis elegans

Pink corydalis
Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Ranunculales
Family:	Papaveraceae
Subfamily:	Fumarioideae
Tribe:	Fumarieae
Subtribe:	Corydalinae
Genus:	Capnoides Mill.
Species:	C. sempervirens
Binomial name
Capnoides sempervirens (L.) Borkh. (1797)
Synonyms
Corydalis glauca Pursh Corydalis sempervirens (L.) Pers. Fumaria sempervirens L.

Description

Plants are 20–80 cm (7.9–31.5 in) tall. Both stems and leaves are glaucous. Leaves are 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in) in length, twice pinnately divided, usually segmented into 3 lobes and sometimes 4. Flowers are tubular, pink with a yellow tip, 1–1.7 cm (0.39–0.67 in) long, grouped into dangling clusters. Seeds are black and shiny, about 1 mm (0.039 in) wide, held tightly together in long thin cylindrical pods.

Flowers bloom from May to September. Often growing out of areas disturbed by fire. Native from Newfoundland to Alaska and south into the eastern United States.^[3]

Gallery

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  Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario
• 
  Illustration from The Botanical Magazine Vol. 5, 1792 (as Fumaria glauca)

External links

• Flora of North America — map
• Connecticut Botanical Society Archived 2007-04-26 at the Wayback Machine