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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Fumaria''
| image = Fumaria spec.JPG
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''Fumaria officinalis''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Ranunculales]]
| familia = [[Fumariaceae]]
| genus = '''''Fumaria'''''
| genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
See text.
}}

'''''Fumaria''''' is a genus of annual [[herbaceous]] [[flowering plant]]s in the family [[Fumariaceae]], native to temperate [[Europe]] and [[Asia]]. It is closely allied to ''[[Corydalis]]'', and some [[botanist]]s combine the two genera. The common name is '''fumitory'''.

;Selected species
*''[[Fumaria bastardii]]'' - tall ramping fumitory, bastard's fumitory
*''[[Fumaria capreolata]]'' - white ramping fumitory
*''[[Fumaria densiflora]]'' - dense-flowered fumitory
*''[[Fumaria martinii]]'' - Martin's fumitory
*''[[Fumaria muralis]]'' - wall fumitory
*''[[Fumaria occidentalis]]'' - western fumitory, Cornish fumitory
*''[[Fumaria officinalis]]'' - common fumitory, drug fumitory
*''[[Fumaria purpurea]]'' - purple ramping fumitory
*''[[Fumaria parviflora]]'' - fineleaf fumitory
*''[[Fumaria reuteri]]'' - few-flowered fumitory
*''[[Fumaria schleicheri]]''
*''[[Fumaria vaillantii]]'' - earthsmoke

Fumitory is an important food plant for the [[Turtle Dove]].
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Fumaria capreolata1.jpg|''F. capreolata''
Image:Fumaria-muralis-flower.JPG|''F. muralis''
Image:Fumaria_spec.JPG|''F officinalis''
Image:Fumaria parviflora Sturm48.jpg|''F. parviflora''
Image:Fumaria vaillanti Sturm47.jpg|''F. vaillantii''
</gallery>
==External links==
*[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=FUMAR USDA Plants Profile: Genus ''Fumaria'']
[[Category:Fumariaceae]]
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