Delphinium parishii |
Delphinium sapellonis |
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desert larkspur, Parish's larkspur |
Sapello Canyon larkspur |
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Stems | (17-)30-60(-100) cm; base reddish or not, glabrous to puberulent. |
(50-)100-180(-220) cm; base sometimes reddish, glabrous sometimes glaucous. |
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Leaves | blade pentagonal, 0.7-5 × 1-8 cm, glabrous to puberulent; ultimate lobes 3-18, width 2-18 mm (basal), 0.5-8 mm (cauline). |
blade round to pentagonal, 6-10 × 8-16 cm, nearly glabrous; ultimate lobes 5-15, width 5-25 mm. |
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Inflorescences | (6-)10-40(-74)-flowered, cylindric; pedicel ascending-spreading, (0.3-)1-2.5(-4.8) cm, glabrous to puberulent; bracteoles 2-5(-10) mm from flowers, green, lance-linear, 2-6(-16) mm, glabrous to puberulent. |
(12-)30-80(-120)-flowered; pedicel 0.5-2 cm, glandular-puberulent; bracteoles 3-5 mm from flowers, green to purple, linear, 5-8 mm, glandular-puberulent. |
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Flowers | sepals dark blue to white to pink, often puberulent, lateral sepals reflexed or spreading, (7-)9-13 × 2-7 mm, spurs ± decurved, ascending 20-45° above horizontal, 7-15 mm; lower petal blades ± elevated, exposing stamens, blue or white to pink (concolorous with sepals), 3-6 mm, clefts 1-3 mm; hairs mostly near base of cleft, centered or on inner lobes, white. |
sepals (in bud) yellowish or brownish purple, becoming browner or yellower with age, glandular-puberulent, lateral sepals forward pointing, 8-12 × 3-5 mm, spurs straight, ascending 20-45° above horizontal, 8-11 mm; lower petal blades slightly elevated, ± exposing stamens, 2.5-5 mm, clefts 1-2 mm; hairs centered, mostly above base of cleft, yellow. |
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Fruits | 9-21 mm, 2-4 times longer than wide, glabrous to puberulent. |
12-18 mm, 3-4 times longer than wide, puberulent. |
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Seeds | seed coat cells ± brick-shaped, cell margins undulate, surfaces roughened. |
wing-margined; seed coat cells elongate, surfaces smooth. |
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Delphinium parishii |
Delphinium sapellonis |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||||||
Habitat | Subalpine meadows and open coniferous forest | |||||||||
Elevation | 2600-3500 m (8500-11500 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NV; UT; nw Mexico
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NM |
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Discussion | Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Delphinium sapellonis hybridizes with D. barbeyi and D. robustum. It replaces D. robustum and represents the southern Cordilleran complex at higher elevations of the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains east of Santa Fe. It is not known elsewhere. (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. Subscaposa | Ranunculaceae > Delphinium > sect. Diedropetala > subsect. Exaltata | ||||||||
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Name authority | A. Gray: Bot. Gaz. 12: 53. (1887) | Tidestrom: Bot. Gaz. 34: 453. (1902) | ||||||||
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