Scouler's Fumewort
Corydalis scouleri
A giant among fumeworts — waist-high stems of blue-green dissected foliage carrying long spurred pink flowers. It runs at the root and can form real colonies in damp Pacific Northwest shade, then goes fully dormant by midsummer.
- Family
- Papaveraceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1.5–4 ft
- Spacing
- 1–3 ft apart
- Light
- part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- April, May, June, July
- Bloom colors
- pink, purple
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, hummingbirds
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing, border
- Native states
- OR, WA