OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Adlumia fungosa   FAMILY Fumariaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Adlumia fungosa   FAMILY Fumariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Adlumia fungosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Adlumia fungosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 086-01-001:

Adlumia fungosa   FAMILY Fumariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Adlumia fungosa

 

COMMON NAME:
Climbing Fumitory, Allegheny Vine, Cliff-Harlequin


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image of Adlumia fungosa, Climbing Fumitory, Allegheny Vine, Cliff-Harlequin

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_adfu_001_lvd

        

image of Adlumia fungosa, Climbing Fumitory, Allegheny Vine, Cliff-Harlequin

JK Marlow    jkm150424_760

April    Blount County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Leaf segments elliptic to obovate, mostly 1-2cm long, 5-10mm wide, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).


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image of Adlumia fungosa, Climbing Fumitory, Allegheny Vine, Cliff-Harlequin

JK Marlow    jkm150424_766

April    Blount County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

image of Adlumia fungosa, Climbing Fumitory, Allegheny Vine, Cliff-Harlequin

JK Marlow    jkm150424_770

April    Blount County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Leaf segments reduced upward as the leaves become tendriloid [tendril-like], per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Adlumia fungosa, Climbing Fumitory, Allegheny Vine, Cliff-Harlequin

JK Marlow    jkm180427_1537

April    Sevier County    TN

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

image of Adlumia fungosa, Climbing Fumitory, Allegheny Vine, Cliff-Harlequin

Jeff Ausmus    jma_adl_fun

June    Monroe County    MI

In cultivation

image of Adlumia fungosa, Climbing Fumitory, Allegheny Vine, Cliff-Harlequin

Jeff Ausmus    jma_adl_fun2

June    Monroe County    MI

In cultivation

Flowers shaped like an upside-down vase with 2 spreading lobes at its mouth, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Adlumia fungosa   FAMILY Fumariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Adlumia fungosa   FAMILY Fumariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Adlumia fungosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Adlumia fungosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 086-01-001:
Adlumia fungosa   FAMILY Fumariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Adlumia fungosa

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3225

Herbaceous vine
Biennial

Habitat: Cliffs, talus, rocky slopes, rich stream-bottom forests, cool rocky forests, burned areas, especially over calcareous or mafic rocks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare

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LEAVES:
1- or 2-pinnately compound
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White to pale pink
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-merous
2 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens, diadelphous
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in drooping clusters from leaf axils

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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