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arctic larkspur, northern larkspur
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20-50(-80) cm; base often reddish, pubescent. |
blade round to pentagonal, 1.5-6 × 3-11 cm, puberulent; ultimate lobes 5-15, width 1-7(-15) mm. |
5-18-flowered; pedicel 1-4.5 cm, pubescent; bracteoles 2-7 mm from flowers, blue, linear, 5-8 mm, puberulent. |
sepals dark blue, apex rounded, puberulent, lateral sepals forward pointing, 17-24 × 7-9 mm, spurs straight to slightly decurved, ascending 30-60° above horizontal, 15-17 mm; lower petal blades ± covering stamens, 5-7 mm, clefts 0.5-1.5 mm; hairs sparse, local, centered, mostly above base of cleft, white. |
14-17 mm, 3.5-4 times longer than wide, pubescent. |
wing-margined; seed coat cells ± elongate, surfaces roughened. |
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| Flowering summer. |
| Well-drained tundra slopes |
| 0-1600 m (0-5200 ft) |
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AK; YT; e Asia |
Hybrids with Delphinium glaucum are known as D. ×nutans A. Nelson. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
| FNA vol. 3. |
| Ranunculaceae > Delphinium > sect. Diedropetala > subsect. Exaltata |
D. alabamicum, D. alpestre, D. andersonii, D. andesicola, D. antoninum, D. bakeri, D. barbeyi, D. basalticum, D. bicolor, D. californicum, D. cardinale, D. carolinianum, D. decorum, D. depauperatum, D. distichum, D. elatum, D. exaltatum, D. geraniifolium, D. geyeri, D. glareosum, D. glaucescens, D. glaucum, D. gracilentum, D. gypsophilum, D. hansenii, D. hesperium, D. hutchinsoniae, D. inopinum, D. lineapetalum, D. luteum, D. madrense, D. menziesii, D. multiplex, D. newtonianum, D. novomexicanum, D. nudicaule, D. nuttallianum, D. nuttallii, D. parishii, D. parryi, D. patens, D. polycladon, D. purpusii, D. ramosum, D. recurvatum, D. robustum, D. sapellonis, D. scaposum, D. scopulorum, D. stachydeum, D. sutherlandii, D. treleasei, D. tricorne, D. trolliifolium, D. uliginosum, D. umbraculorum, D. variegatum, D. viridescens, D. wootonii, D. xantholeucum |
| D. chamissonis |
| Ledebour: Fl. Ross. 1: 60. (1841) |
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