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Slender Corydalis

(Corydalis micrantha)

Color Photograph: NRCS Plants Database, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

Corydalis flavula

Slender Corydalis lacks the crest on the upper petal and the dentate lower petal found in Yellow Corydalis.

Corydalis aurea

The spur is up-turned in Slender Corydalis, but down-turned in Golden Corydalis.

Slender Corydalis (Corydalis micrantha)

Identification: Flowers yellow, elongate with a long, single, up-curved spur. The petals are not upturned or dentate. Leaves much divided, but arranged in groups of three leaflets. Plant about 8 to 16 inches in height.

Distribution: Found in the southeastern United States and the central plains region to Wisconsin and Indiana. Absent from the northeastern United States.

Habitat: Slender Corydalis is typically found in open woods on sandy or gravelly soils.

Flowering period: March to May.

Slender Corydalis (Corydalis micrantha)

Similar Species:

Yellow Corydalis (Corydalis flavula)

Golden Corydalis (Corydalis aurea)

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