{{short description|Monotypic genus of flowering plant in the poppy family}} {{Italic title}} {{Speciesbox | name = Pink corydalis | image = Rock harlequin flower and leaves.jpg | image_caption = Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina | display_parents = 4 | genus = Capnoides | parent_authority = Mill. | species = sempervirens | authority = (L.) Borkh. (1797) | synonyms = ''Corydalis glauca'' <small>Pursh</small><br/> ''Corydalis sempervirens'' <small>(L.) Pers.</small><br/> ''Fumaria sempervirens'' <small>L.</small> }}

'''''Capnoides sempervirens''''', the '''harlequin corydalis''',<ref name=BSBI07>{{BSBI 2007 |access-date=2014-10-17 }}</ref> '''rock harlequin''',<ref>{{PLANTS|id=COSE5|taxon=Corydalis sempervirens|accessdate=17 January 2016}}</ref> '''pale corydalis''' or '''pink corydalis''', is an annual or biennial plant native to rocky woodland and burned or disturbed places in northern North America. '''''Capnoides sempervirens''''' is the only species in the genus '''''Capnoides'''''.

; Name(s) brought to synonymy: * ''Capnoides elegans'' Kuntze, a synonym for ''Corydalis elegans''

==Description== Plants are {{convert|20|-|80|cm|in|abbr=on}} tall. Both stems and leaves are glaucous. Leaves are {{convert|1|-|3|cm|in|abbr=on}} in length, twice pinnately divided, usually segmented into 3 lobes and sometimes 4. Flowers are tubular, pink with a yellow tip, {{convert|1|-|1.7|cm|in|abbr=on}} long, grouped into dangling clusters. Seeds are black and shiny, about {{convert|1|mm|in|abbr=on}} wide, held tightly together in long thin cylindrical pods.

Flowers bloom from May to September. Often growing out of areas disturbed by fire. Native from Newfoundland to Alaska and south into the eastern United States.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kershaw|first=Linda|title=Ontario Wildflowers|year=2002|publisher=Lone Pine Publishing|location=Canada|isbn=1-55105-285-7|pages=33}}</ref>

==Gallery== <gallery> Image:Pink Corydalis.jpg|Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario Image:The_Botanical_Magazine,_Plate_179_(Volume_5,_1792).png|Illustration from ''The Botanical Magazine'' Vol. 5, 1792 (as ''Fumaria glauca'') </gallery>

==External links== {{Commons category|Capnoides}} {{Wikispecies}} *[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233500447 Flora of North America] — [http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=5996&flora_id=1 map] *[http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/corydalissemp.html Connecticut Botanical Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426130033/http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/corydalissemp.html |date=2007-04-26 }}

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Category:Fumarioideae Category:Flora of Connecticut Category:Monotypic Papaveraceae genera Category:Taxa named by Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen

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