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Aconitum napellus |
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Garden Monkshood, Helmet
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 4-8 |
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Northern Europe |
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Erect plant |
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3-4 feet tall by 12-18 inches wide |
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Blue or violet, in
upright spike-like terminal racemes, individual
flowers are 1-2 inches tall and are shaped like
small helmets or hoods with a beak in front. |
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Mid to late summer |
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Alternate, 3-5
inches wide. palmately veined, divided
to the base, each segment again divided to near its
base segments are linear to lanceolate. |
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This species is
distinguished from
A.
carmichaelii by having leaf blades that
are divided to the base and it blooms earlier. |
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