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Aconitum napellus
Dark purple, tall, thin leaves
Lower alpine areas, madows
Called "Preobjeda" and it's POISONOUS (http://www.lekarnaljubljana.si/si/lekarn...) It's also called Wolf's Bane. I think this is it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aconitum_na...
Spotted on Aug 22, 2011
Submitted on Nov 22, 2011
10 Comments
Here is list of most of India's flowering plants...
http://www.flowersofindia.in/botanical.h...
Ashish, what about this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aconitum_na...
We had some plants here...
http://www.flowersofindia.in/catalog/sli...
Oh... Its too in Ranunculaceae family as per my last guess.... Nice to learn here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aconitum
@chebeagueschool, you're right. this plant is poisonous!
It looks like lupin. It will kill animals if they eat it.
It does look like a delphinium.
We see here one similar plant Delphinium malabaricum
http://www.flowersofindia.in/catalog/sli...
May your plant is in same genus...Ranunculaceae family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphinium
Do you have close shot of flower...?
Like one in Acanthaceae of Lamiaceae family