Fumaria muralisSond. ex W.D.J.Koch

common ramping-fumitory

WFO wfo-0000693322 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Fumaria muralis, photographed by John Lyden
fig. a John Lyden, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-18 / obs. 198709794

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Fumaria muralis is native: Azores, Canary Is., Madeira, Morocco, Selvagens, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain MoroccoSelvagensBelgiumFranceIrelandNorwayPortugalSpain AzoresCanary Is.Madeira
Native distribution of Fumaria muralis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belgium BGM EUROPE
France FRA
Great Britain GRB
Ireland IRE
Norway NOR
Portugal POR
Spain SPA
Azores AZO AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Selvagens SEL

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 1,230 in flower of 1,246 examined

Proportion of examined Fumaria muralis in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 136 136 100% 97% to 100%
Feb 197 198 99% 97% to 100%
Mar 243 243 100% 98% to 100%
Apr 169 174 97% 93% to 99%
May 77 79 97% 91% to 99%
Jun 48 48 100% 93% to 100%
Jul 38 41 93% 81% to 97%
Aug 81 83 98% 92% to 99%
Sep 86 88 98% 92% to 99%
Oct 74 74 100% 95% to 100%
Nov 46 47 98% 89% to 100%
Dec 35 35 100% 90% to 100%

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Fumaria muralis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 1,230 of 1,246 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 16 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Fumaria apiculata Hammar
  • Fumaria bastardii var. major Boreau
  • Fumaria boraei Jord.
  • Fumaria boraei var. muraliformis Clavaud
  • Fumaria muralis var. ambigua Pugsley
  • Fumaria muralis var. britannica Pugsley
  • Fumaria muralis var. cornubiensis Pugsley
  • Fumaria muralis var. decipiens Pugsley
  • Fumaria muralis var. gracilis Pugsley
  • Fumaria muralis var. longibracteata Pugsley
  • Fumaria muralis var. lowei Pugsley
  • Fumaria muralis var. major (Boreau) P.D.Sell
  • Fumaria muraslis var. laeta R.T.Lowe
  • Fumaria neglecta Pugsley
  • Fumaria officinalis var. grandiflora DC.
  • Fumaria sepium var. hurdana Caball.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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