Delphinium barbeyi |
Delphinium decorum |
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Barbey larkspur, Barbey's larkspur, subalpine larkspur, tall larkspur |
coast larkspur, coastal larkspur, larkspur, low larkspur, yellowtinge larkspur |
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Stems | 50-150 cm; base green, glabrous. |
5-25(-42) cm; base reddish or not, at least two proximal internodes long-pubescent. |
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Leaves | blade round to reniform, 4-8 × 7-15 cm, glabrous; ultimate lobes 5-9, width 8-50 mm. |
blade deltate to pentagonal, 1-2.5 × 1.5-4.5 cm, ± puberulent; ultimate lobes 3-15, width 3-17 mm (basal), 1-8 mm (cauline), widest at middle or in proximal 1/2. |
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Inflorescences | 10-50-flowered; pedicel 0.5-6 cm, glandular-puberulent; bracteoles 1-4(-8) mm from flowers, blue to green, awl-shaped, 5-14 mm, puberulent. |
2-10(-20)-flowered; pedicel 1-4(-6) cm, puberulent to glabrous; bracteoles (3-)7-11(-21) mm from flowers, green to blue, linear-lanceolate, 6-9(-12) mm, puberulent. |
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Flowers | sepals dark bluish purple, sparsely puberulent, lateral sepals forward pointing, 13-23 × 5-8 mm, spurs ascending ca. 45°, downcurved apically, 10-18 mm; lower petal blades ± covering stamens, 4-7 mm, clefts 2-3 mm; hairs centered, mostly near base of cleft, sparse elsewhere, white or yellow. |
sepals bluish purple (somewhat faded on drying), puberulent, lateral sepals spreading, (11-)15-20(-24) × 6-11(-15) mm, spur straight, 0-30° above horizontal, 13-20 mm; lower petal blades ± covering stamens, 6-11 mm, cleft 2-4 mm; hairs on entire surface, densest on inner lobes, yellow or white. |
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Fruits | 17-22 mm, 2.5-3 times longer than wide, puberulent. |
9-20 mm, 3-4.5 times longer than wide, glabrous to puberulent. |
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Seeds | wing-margined; seed coat cells narrow but short, surfaces pustulate. |
wing-margined; seed coat cells ± aggregate in small wavy ridges, cell surfaces ± roughened, without swollen, blunt hairs. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Delphinium barbeyi |
Delphinium decorum |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||
Habitat | Subalpine and alpine sites in wet soils | |||||
Elevation | 2500-4100 m (8200-13500 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; UT; WY
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CA
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Discussion | Delphinium barbeyi hybridizes extensively with D. glaucum in western Colorado and eastern Utah, where plants appearing to be hybrid [D. ×occidentale (S. Watson) S. Watson] are often far more common than plants of either putative parent. Several other names have been used for these plants, including D. elatum var. occidentale S. Watson, D. abietorum Tidestrom, and D. scopulorum subsp. occidentale (S. Watson) Abrams. Delphinium barbeyi is also known to hybridize with D. ramosum and D. sapellonis. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). Delphinium decorum and D. menziesii have been confused. Delphinium menziesii usually has darker, colorfast (nonfading) sepals with less lavender, and a more northern distribution than D. decorum. It also has more finely dissected leaves than D. decorum subsp. decorum. Often confused with Delphinium patens, D. decorum is sometimes circumscribed to include that species. The spreading, fading, blue-purple sepals, pubescent proximal portion of stems, and large lower petal blade of D. decorum, compared to the reflexed, colorfast, bluer sepals, proximally glabrous stems, and smaller lower petal blades of D. patens, adequately distinguish the two taxa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. | ||||
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Delphinium > sect. Diedropetala > subsect. Exaltata | Ranunculaceae > Delphinium > sect. Diedropetala > subsect. Grumosa | ||||
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Synonyms | D. exaltatum var. (e) barbeyi, D. occidentale var. barbeyi | |||||
Name authority | (Huth) Huth: Bull. Herb. Boissier 1: 335. (1893) | Fischer & C. A. Meyer: Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 3: 650. (1837) | ||||
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