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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Purple or white flower color looks like a pretty clear identifier — according to Flora of Virginia, we only have one native Corydalis: the much smaller yellow-flowered C. flavula. C. sempervirens has pink flowers ( & has been renamed Capnoides sempervirens). Then there is Fumaria officinalis with round seedpods — and it isn’t native.<BR>
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Margaret<BR>
On 4/6/16 12:44 PM, "Swearingen, Jil" <jil_swearingen@nps.gov> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Ruth,<BR>
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Just to be sure.. How do you know that this is incisa? There are a lot of native Corydalis as I'm sure you know... Some look like this. I just want to be sure the identification is correct.<BR>
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Thank you!<BR>
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Jil<BR>
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Ruth Douglas <cvilleruth@embarqmail.com> wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT COLOR="#1F497D">Last year around the end of April I went looking for possible Corydalis incisa along Red Bud Creek, near my home in Albemarle Co. VA. I found probably 40 plants in bloom and starting to go to seed. I pulled up all those I saw and flagged the area. This year I went back on April 3 and found about 15 plants in bloom nearby, but not yet going to seed, and pulled them all and again flagged the area.<BR>
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In the last several days I have heard of two more infestations in Virginia, one more in Albemarle Co. and one in Madison Co., both in extensive private native plant gardens. I don’t know if the plant hitchhiked in with another plant purchased from a supplier or whether the owner planted them without realizing that they could be very invasive; I will investigate that.<BR>
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I don’t think I can attach a picture, but here is a link to a photo <a href="http://www.henriettes-herb.com/galleries/photos/c/co/corydalis-incisa-1.html">http://www.henriettes-herb.com/galleries/photos/c/co/corydalis-incisa-1.html</a> <BR>
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And here is a link to a plants profile <a href="http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=COIN21">http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=COIN21</a> <BR>
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Ruth Douglas<BR>
Charlottesville, VA<BR>
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