Plants and animals of Pointfield

An informal survey of the plant and animal life living in or visiting the grounds of Pointfield, Kelso since 2015   

Wild flowers 

Common fumitory

Fumaria officinalis


Appearance

Very weak and floppy annual with soft, deeply divided parsley-like leaves. Flowers a raceme arise from a stalk; white and tubular with a dark red tip and lower petal diverging; lower petal with expanded paddle-shaped tip.

Habitat

In semi-cultivated border near the back gate and in wildarea behind pond rockery.


Months in flower

2020
2021
2022
2023