Fumitories of the San Francisco Bay Area

Vouchers sent to UC Davis herbarium and CDFA on 2018-03-02.

Flowers are in axillary and terminal racemes; pink with dark red tips; upper petal is spurred. Leaves are alternate, pinnate or 2-pinnate with ultimate segments deeply lobed. Fruit is ovoid to almost round; surface is smooth (when fresh).

Flowers per inflorescence: 9-14

Measurements:
Plant height: 17 cm
Corolla length: 12 mm
Sepal length: 3.5 mm
Fruit length: 2 mm

Habitat: Baylands Park near the salt ponds. There are several clumps of fumitories in this area.

Nearby flora: various grasses, geraniums, thistles, blue elderberry

Vegetation type: anthropogenic habitat

Sunlight: mostly sunny

Population size (estimate): >50

Elevation: 2.87 m (9.43 ft.)

2018-03-03: added photos of dried seeds

Note: It's cold and windy here near the San Francisco Bay and the soil is probably fairly saline because the site is marshland near salt ponds.

Identifier: Valerio Lazzeri (Key: The identification of F. muralis has used all the morphological characters of the key developed by Magnus Lidén: Lidén M., 1986. Synopsis of Fumarioideae with a monograph of the tribe Fumarieae. Opera Bot. 88.)

Fumaria muralis

Flowers are in axillary and terminal racemes; light pink with dark red tips; upper petal is spurred. Leaves are alternate, pinnate or 2-pinnate with ultimate segments deeply lobed. Fruit is ovoid to almost round; surface is smooth (when fresh).

Flowers per inflorescence: 9-14

Measurements:
Plant height: 17 cm
Corolla length: 9-11 mm
Sepal length: 3-4 mm
Fruit length: 2 mm

Habitat: Riparian - near Guadalupe River. Growing under Tasmanian blue-gum eucalyptus trees

Vegetation type: Anthropogenic habitat

Sunlight: mostly shady

Population size (estimate): >50

Elevation: 2.55 m (8.37 ft.)

2018-03-03: added photo of dried seeds

2018-05-04: Fumaria muralis is still blooming in this area

Note: These pictures are not ideal - it was windy and cloudy today. I might have to go back another day and get better pictures.

See observations in this same location from last year (Dec 2016 and Feb 2017):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4882970
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5104848

Identifier: Valerio Lazzeri (Key: The identification of F. muralis has used all the morphological characters of the key developed by Magnus Lidén: Lidén M., 1986. Synopsis of Fumarioideae with a monograph of the tribe Fumarieae. Opera Bot. 88.)

Fumaria muralis
Site: ULI-04

Flowers are in axillary and terminal racemes; dark pink to red with dark red tips; upper petal is spurred. Leaves are alternate, pinnate or 2-pinnate with ultimate segments deeply lobed. Fruit is ovoid to almost round; surface is smooth (when fresh).

Flowers per inflorescence: 11-13

Measurements:
Plant height: 18 cm

Corolla length: 11-13 mm
Sepal length: 2.5 - 3.5 mm
Fruit length: 2 mm

Habitat: Riparian - near Guadalupe River. Growing in the cultivated native plants garden.

Vegetation type: anthropogenic habitat

Sunlight: mostly sunny

Population size (estimate): 2-3

Elevation: 4.25 m (13.95 ft.)

2018-03-03: added photos of dried seeds

2018-05-04: Fumaria muralis is still blooming in this area

Note: These pictures are not ideal - it was windy and cloudy today. I might have to go back another day and get better pictures.

Identifier: Valerio Lazzeri (Key: The identification of F. muralis has used all the morphological characters of the key developed by Magnus Lidén: Lidén M., 1986. Synopsis of Fumarioideae with a monograph of the tribe Fumarieae. Opera Bot. 88.)

Fumaria muralis

Flowers are in axillary and terminal racemes; pink with dark red tips; upper petal is spurred. Leaves are alternate, pinnate or 2-pinnate with ultimate segments deeply lobed. Fruit is ovoid to almost round; surface is smooth (when fresh).

Flowers per inflorescence: 9-13

Measurements:
Plant height: n/a
Corolla length: 11 mm
Sepal length: 3 - 3.5 mm
Fruit length: 2 mm

Habitat: Salt marsh (near San Francisco Bay)

Nearby flora: various grasses, geraniums, thistles

Vegetation type: anthropogenic habitat

Sunlight: mostly sunny

Population size (estimate): >50

Elevation: 3.82 m (12.52 ft.)

2018-03-03: added photo of dried seeds

See observation in same location from last year (2017):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5223422

Identifier: Valerio Lazzeri (Key: The identification of F. muralis has used all the morphological characters of the key developed by Magnus Lidén: Lidén M., 1986. Synopsis of Fumarioideae with a monograph of the tribe Fumarieae. Opera Bot. 88.)