About Fumaria parviflora Lam.
Fumaria parviflora Lam. is a species of flowering plant with three common names: fineleaf fumitory, fine-leaved fumitory, and Indian fumitory. It is native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, but is common and widely distributed across many other regions of the world. It sometimes grows as a weed. This plant produces small dull white flowers with purple tips, and its fruit is a rounded nutlet that has a central crest. Numerous alkaloidal chemical constituents have been found in Fumaria parviflora. The major alkaloids isolated from this species are protopine and adlumidiceine. The minor isolated alkaloids are parfumine, fumariline, dihydrofumariline, cryptopine, (-)-stylopine, 8-oxocoptisine, sanguinarine, and oxysanguinarine.
