Corydalis flavula

Corydalis flavula

Corydalis flavula is a plant native to North America in the subfamily Fumitory ( Fumarioideae ) within the family of the poppy family ( Papaveraceae ). The first description of this kind was published by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque 1808 - Schmaltz in Species Plantarum.

Description

The green to bluish green, annual herbaceous plant has multiple stems to achieve the stature heights 15 to 30 inches; these are upright in youth, later often decumbent. The growing at the base of the stem leaves are long-petiolate, the above growing leaves shortly petiolate to sitting and hardly reduced in size. The leaves are pinnate, and from five to seven leaflets consisting, in turn, consist of up to five incised leaflets. The outermost leaf segments are narrowly to broadly elliptic, acuminate, very different in size.

The racemose inflorescence consists of six to ten or more flowers, it grows much beyond the leaves; the flowers are sometimes poorly trained, one to fünfblütige grapes cleistogamic flowers - if available - are unremarkable. The flower stems are slender, 6 to 15 mm ( or more) long. The sepals thin, lanceolate, kurklebig and about 1 millimeter long. The forced standing flowers are pale yellow, the spurred petals are 7-9 mm long, the ungespornte petals 6-8 mm long. The fruits are 14 to 22 millimeters long, the black seeds up to 2 millimeters.

The flowering period extends from mid-March to mid-May, the fruit of time from early April to early June.

Habitat requirements and distribution

The species colonized moist soils, forested slopes and riparian forests at altitudes up to 700 m. The distribution extends from Connecticut and New York to North Carolina, westward to northern Louisiana and extends to the east of Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.

Synonyms

• Corydalis aurea a flavula Wood
• Corydalis flavidula Chapm.
• Capnodes flavulum Kuntze
• Neckeria flavula Millsp.
• Corydalis geyeri Fedde