3086

Forb
Annual

Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare

Look for it on circumneutral rock outcrops and adjacent glades and woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Compound
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-merous
2 sepals
4 petals
6 stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Corydalis micrantha   FAMILY Fumariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Corydalis micrantha ssp. micrantha   FAMILY Fumariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Corydalis micrantha var. micrantha

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