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Dark purple hood-shaped flowers loosely arranged near top of a tall stem.
Mountains, praire, spotted around 1400m
From the meadows of Hemkund.
These beautiful flowering plants have the potent neurotoxin aconitine.
Tall flowering spike, blue flowers spaced alternately along stem.
Found at a local native plant farm- aconite in its plant form is quite pretty!
they usually have a spur. The fruits are pod-like follicles.
Like other
It looks like an orchid, are there wild orchids in Idaho? I thought they were ...
Aconitum napellus, a European endemic, spotted bloomed in Christchurch Botanic ...
Difficile to decide between variegated and common
Long stalk (~6 feet long) with purple flowers on top. Flowers had a "hood" type ...
Neat purple flowers that look like little monk hoods. It looks like we were ...
The whole plant is highly toxic. The plant is pretty tall and the flowers are ...
It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1 m tall. The leaves are ...
English name monkshood. There are 2–10 ...
Dark purple helmet shaped multiple flowers with kind of rounded leaves. About ...
with five to seven segments; each segment is trilobed with coarse sharp teeth. ...
Tall plant, more than 1 m to the tip of the flower raceme. It is an herbaceous ...
, blackthorn, cherry, chestnut, hawthorn, oak, rowan and sallow. It has also ...
Thistle, Knapweed (Asteraceae), Vetch, Red and White Clover (Fabaceae),