Flora of North America species comparison

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Delphinium sect. Diedropetala
Roots

2-80 cm, tuberlike or fibrous, dry or fleshy;

buds often less than 3 mm.
Stems

1-8(-19) per root;

base firmly attached to root or not.
Leaves

cauline and/or in basal rosette, gradually or abruptly reduced into bracts.
Flowers

sepals blue, purple, white, red, or yellow;

lower petal blades often same color as lateral sepals, usually greater than 1/5 length of lateral sepals (exceptions in red- and yellow-flowered species).

Delphinium sect. Diedropetala
Source FNA vol. 3, p. 197. Treatment author: Michael J. Warnock.
Parent taxa Ranunculaceae > Delphinium
Subordinate taxa
Name authority Huth: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20: 420. (1895)
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