''Capnoides sempervirens'', the harlequin corydalis,
rock harlequin, pale corydalis or pink corydalis, is an
annual or
biennial plant
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native to rocky
woodland
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and burned or disturbed places in northern
North America. ''Capnoides sempervirens'' is the
only species in the genus ''Capnoides''.
; Name(s) brought to synonymy:
* ''Capnoides elegans'' Kuntze, a synonym for ''
Corydalis elegans''
Description
Plants are tall. Both stems and leaves are
glaucous. Leaves are in length, twice pinnately divided, usually segmented into 3 lobes and sometimes 4. Flowers are tubular, pink with a yellow tip, long, grouped into dangling clusters. Seeds are black and shiny, about wide, held tightly together in long thin cylindrical pods.
Flowers bloom from May to September. Often growing out of areas disturbed by fire. Native from Newfoundland to Alaska and south into the eastern United States.
Gallery
Image:Pink Corydalis.jpg, Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario
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Image:The_Botanical_Magazine,_Plate_179_(Volume_5,_1792).png, Illustration from ''The Botanical Magazine'' Vol. 5, 1792 (as ''Fumaria glauca'')
External links
Flora of North America�
map
References
Fumarioideae
Flora of Connecticut
Monotypic Papaveraceae genera
Taxa named by Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen
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