NameThatPlant.net: Corydalis incisa

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Corydalis incisa FAMILY Fumariaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.

Look out for this one! It is expected to be a new emerging invader. Read an assessment of this plant's invasive risk potential: Weed Risk Assessment for Corydalis incisa.

Learn more about Corydalis from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Corydalis incisa FAMILY Fumariaceae

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

Corydalis incisa

COMMON NAME:
Incised Fumewort, Purple Keman

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image of Corydalis incisa, Incised Fumewort, Purple Keman

Lisa Lofland Gould lgo_corydalis_incisa

March Forsyth County NC

A spring ephemeral that thrives in the same kind of habitats as Ficaria verna.

COMPARE Chervil, Corydalis, and Fumitory

Trena McNabb tmn_corydalis_incisa

March Forsyth County NC

This plant is dispersed by water; expect it to move downstream.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Corydalis incisa FAMILY Fumariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Corydalis incisa FAMILY Fumariaceae

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

4136

Forb
Annual/Biennial

Habitat: Bottomland forests, moist suburban woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: east Asia

Rare

map
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)

LEAVES:
Ternately compound, with 2-3 levels of compoundness
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Spring
Pink-purple with a white crest (rarely entirely white)
Bilaterally symmetrical
2 sepals
4 petals
Superior ovary

Flowers in compact racemes

FRUIT:
Capsule

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

"Invasive exotics share several strong traits: fit well within the environment, grow rapidly, mature to produce flowers and seed at an early age, produce great quantities of seed, effectively disperse their seed (via birds, etc.), rampantly spread vegetatively, have no major pest of disease problems. Horticulturally, some of these characteristics are considered quite desirable. Thus there is the absurd irony of various governmental and environmental groups trying hard to control and eradicate in the wild some of the very same species being sold to gardeners all over the US...." — Margie Hunter, Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee

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