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Botanical details
- Family
- Papaveraceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Dactylicapnos
- Genus description
Dactylicapnos (formerly included in Dicentra) are frost-tender deciduous climbing perennials or annuals, with compound or pinnate leaves, and flowers with heart-shaped outer petals which are characteristically pouched at the base, convergent to the tips, then bent outwards. These are usually borne in small, sometimes hanging, clusters, followed by pods, some strikingly inflated
- Name status
Correct
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