Climbing Corydalis - Ceratocapnos claviculata

Climbing Corydalis is a delicate, pale, much branched climber, with pale cream flowers in a lax raceme of 6 to 8, and with leaves terminating in branched tendrils. It grows up to a metre tall with weak, often pinkish, clambering stems.

It occurs in woodlands or rocky areas, generally on acid soils.

June to September, sometimes earlier.

Annual, very occasionally a perennial.

Fairly widespread but local in most of Britain, and less common in central southern England.

Mostly confined to Charnwood Forest and the north west of Leicestershire where it is local. The Flora of Leicestershire published in 1988 states that it occurred in 11 of the 617 tetrads.