Corydalis solida (L.) Clairv., two morphs with deviating bracts (Finland, Vantaa, Tikkurila, 1993). – Image: Harri Harmaja (scanned from dried specimen). – Four kinds of C. solida (Fumariaceae) grew intermixed in an occurrence of the species on the shore of the river Keravanjoki, associated with Gagea lutea and Ranunculus ficaria: (i) typical plants, (ii) plants with digitately dissected bracts (on the left and in the middle in the image above) as in the closely related C. pumila, (iii) plants that possessed entire bracts except for 3 apical teeth (the plant on the right), and (iv) exceptionally small plants. The segregation of the plants of the stand between these four categories was not quite strict. In Lammi (Untulanharju, 1987) I also found a stand of C. solida with almost entire bracts (with three apical teeth), and in Lohja (Torhola, 1967) a few plants with totally entire bracts.
Created September 20, 2004.