Pseudofumaria lutea
Yellow Corydalis ( Corydalis lutea)
The Yellow Corydalis ( Corydalis lutea ) is a plant from the family of poppy plants. They are found in cracks in the walls themselves often still in inner cities.
According to recent classifications of Yellow Corydalis is also put in the genus Pseudofumaria together with the Blass Yellow Corydalis: as Pseudofumaria lutea (L.) Borkh.
Description
It is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the plant height 15-20 centimeters. The plant is usually strongly branched heard of reason and therefore grows bushy.
The bare and pale green to slightly bluish- green leaves are bipinnate or three times. The Fiederabschnitte are usually not more than one and a half times as long as wide. At the bottom they are long wedge-shaped and narrowed front often lobed.
The flowers are yellow, with the two outer bracts often, but not always, are bright lemon yellow, the two inner slightly darker orange - yellow. The flowers of the Yellow lark spur appear almost throughout the summer (May to September) and are in terminal, many-flowered clusters.
Distribution and habitat requirements
Originally probably a resident calcareous rock crevices, the Yellow Corydalis probably comes from the Southern Alps, but has been abducted in nearly all temperate and warmer regions of the earth. In Central Europe it is widely used in wall crevices or at the base of walls everywhere. Also, it is often grown in gardens.