Corydalis flabellata - Fanleaf Corydalis

Fanleaf Corydalis is a perennial, hairless, glaucous herb with compound fleshy leaves with fan-shaped leaflets. Flowers are yellow, in splke-like clusters 10-20 crn long, borne at the ends of the branches. Flowers are many, 1.2-1.8 cm, with a short spur up to one third as long as the flower, down-curved and somewhat swollen at the tip. Leaves are with 3-6 pairs of leaflets and a end leaflet, each leaflet 1-2 cm across, often deeply 3-lobed or cut. Stem is erect, rigid, much branched, glaucous, 20-60 cm. Capsules are linear, 1.2-2 rncn, style 4-5 mrn, recurved at tip. Fanleaf Corydalis is found on stony hillsides of dry, Tibetan borderlands; common in Ladakh. It is know from Pakistan to C. Nepal, Tibet, at altitudes of 2700-4000 m. Flowering: June-August.