''Adlumia'' is a genus of two species in the family

Papaveraceae The Papaveraceae are an economically important family of about 42 genera and approximately 775 known species of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales, informally known as the poppy family. The family is cosmopolitan, occurring in tempera ...

. The genus name derives from John Adlum (1759–1836), a surveyor, associate judge, plantsman and agriculturist who ran an 80 ha (200 acre) experimental farm in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. The genus was first described and published in

Syst. Nat. ' (originally in Latin written ' with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy. Although the system, now known as binomial ...

Vol.2 on page 111 in 1821. One species, ''

Adlumia fungosa ''Adlumia fungosa'' is a species in the Papaveraceae that is commonly known as the Allegheny vine, climbing fumitory, or mountain fringe. It is a herbaceous, creeping, flowering plant and is closely related to the Fumitory genus, ''Fumaria''. '' ...

'', is commonly known as the ''Allegheny vine'', ''climbing fumitory'', or ''mountain fringe''. It is found in the eastern US, north of VA and TN, as far west as IA and MN, as well as in eastern Canada. The other species, ''

Adlumia asiatica ''Adlumia'' is a genus of two species in the family Papaveraceae. The genus name derives from John Adlum (1759–1836), a surveyor, associate judge, plantsman and agriculturist who ran an 80 ha (200 acre) experimental farm in Georgetown, Washingto ...

'', is native to

Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republi ...

and immediately neighbouring parts of China (in

Manchuria Manchuria is an exonym (derived from the endo demonym "Manchu") for a historical and geographic region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China (Inner Manchuria) and parts of the Russian Far East ( Outer ...

) and southeast Russia (within Amur and Khabarovsk).

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External links

Connecticut Botanical Society: ''Adlumia fungosa''
Fumarioideae Papaveraceae genera Plants described in 1821 Flora of Korea Flora of Manchuria Flora of Amur Oblast Flora of Khabarovsk Krai Flora of Canada {{Ranunculales-stub