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Fumaria officinalis (drug fumitory)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Fumaria officinalis (common fumitory, drug fumitory or earth smoke) is a herbaceous annual flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae It is the most common species of the genus Fumaria in Western and Central Europe.
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Infraspecies

Fumaria officinalis officinalis (Drug fumitory)
Fumaria officinalis ragusina

Attributes

Dispersal Mode [3]  Autochory
Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Flies, Bats
Usage [1]  A yellow dye is obtained from the flowers; A decoction makes a curative lotion for 'milk-crust' on the scalps of babies;
Height [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist
View Plants For A Future Record : Fumaria officinalis

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Columba oenas (Stock Dove)[4]
Sirocalodes depressicollis[5]
Sirocalodes mixtus[5]
Sirocalodes quercicola[5]
Streptopelia turtur (European Turtle-Dove)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Peronospora affinis[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Paula S, Arianoutsou M, Kazanis D, Tavsanoglu Ç, Lloret F, Buhk C, Ojeda F, Luna B, Moreno JM, Rodrigo A, Espelta JM, Palacio S, Fernández-Santos B, Fernandes PM, and Pausas JG. 2009. Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin. Ecology 90: 1420.
Paula S. & Pausas J.G. 2013. BROT: a plant trait database for Mediterranean Basin species. Version 2013.06.
♦ 4Ecology of Commanster
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0