''Capnoides sempervirens'', the harlequin corydalis, rock harlequin, pale corydalis or pink corydalis, is an

annual Annual may refer to: * Annual publication, periodical publications appearing regularly once per year **Yearbook **Literary annual * Annual plant *Annual report *Annual giving *Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco *Annuals (band), ...

biennial Biennial means (an event) lasting for two years or occurring every two years. The related term biennium is used in reference to a period of two years. In particular, it can refer to: * Biennial plant, a plant which blooms in its second year and th ...

plant Plants are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all curr ...

native to rocky

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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 ''Corydalis elegans'' () is a species of plant in the family Papaveraceae. It is found in India, China and the West Himalayas. References elegans Plants described in 1855 Taxa named by Thomas Thomson (botanist) Taxa named by Joseph Dalto ...

Description

Plants are tall. Both stems and leaves are

glaucous ''Glaucous'' (, ) is used to describe the pale grey or bluish-green appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds, such as the glaucous gull (''Larus hyperboreus''), glaucous-winged gull (''Larus glaucescens''), g ...

. 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

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Quetico Provincial Park Quetico Provincial Park is a large wilderness park in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its excellent canoe camping, canoeing and fishing. The park shares its southern border with Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, which ...

Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central C ...

Image:The_Botanical_Magazine,_Plate_179_(Volume_5,_1792).png, Illustration from ''The Botanical Magazine'' Vol. 5, 1792 (as ''Fumaria glauca'')

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References

Fumarioideae Flora of Connecticut Monotypic Papaveraceae genera Taxa named by Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen {{Ranunculales-stub