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Adlumia fungosa

Allegheny-vine, climbing fumitory, mountain-fringe
Habit Plants 0.5-4 m. Leaves 2-13 × 1-8 cm.
Flowers

corolla white to pale pink or purplish, 10-17 × 3-7 mm.
Capsules

compressed-cylindric, ca. 10 mm.
Seeds

compressed-globose, lustrous.
2n

= 32.

Adlumia fungosa
Phenology Flowering summer–early fall.
Habitat Moist coves, rocky woods, ledges, alluvial slopes, and thickets
Elevation 0-1500 m (0-4900 ft)
Distribution
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CT; DE; IL; IN; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; PA; RI; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; BC; MB; NB; NS; ON; QC
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Discussion

Adlumia fungosa is apparently naturalized in southwestern British Columbia. It was reported to be "freely escaping" from a garden in Alberta (H. Groh 1949), and it is a casual, but usually not persisting, escape elsewhere.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Fumariaceae > Adlumia
Synonyms Fumaria fungosa
Name authority (Aiton) Greene ex Britton: Sterns & Poggenberg, Prelim. Cat., 3. (1888)
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