Delphinium parryi |
Delphinium sect. Diedropetala |
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Parry's larkspur, San Bernardino larkspur |
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Roots | 2-80 cm, tuberlike or fibrous, dry or fleshy; buds often less than 3 mm. |
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Stems | (10-)40-80(-110) cm; base reddish, puberulent. |
1-8(-19) per root; base firmly attached to root or not. |
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Leaves | blade pentagonal, 1-7 × 2-10 cm, ± puberulent; ultimate lobes 3-27, width 1-20 mm (basal), 0.5-5 mm (cauline). |
cauline and/or in basal rosette, gradually or abruptly reduced into bracts. |
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Inflorescences | (2-)8-24(-48)-flowered, cylindric; pedicel ± spreading, (0.5-)1-3(-6.8) cm, usually puberulent; bracteoles 2-7(-16) mm from flowers, green to blue, lance-linear, 2-6(-10) mm, puberulent. |
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Flowers | sepals dark blue to bluish purple, puberulent, lateral sepals spreading or reflexed, (7-)10-20(-25) × 4-9 mm, spurs straight, ascending 0-30° above horizontal, 9-17(-21) mm; lower petal blades slightly elevated, ± exposing stamens, 3-10 mm, clefts 2-6 mm; hairs mostly near base of cleft, centered or on inner lobes, white. |
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). |
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Fruits | 10-19 mm, 2.8-4 times longer than wide, puberulent or glabrous. |
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Seeds | seed coat cells ± brick-shaped, cell margins undulate, surfaces ± roughened. |
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Delphinium parryi |
Delphinium sect. Diedropetala |
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Distribution |
North America (Calif)
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Discussion | Subspecies 5 (5 in the flora). A number of local phases are found in Delphinium parryi. Five of these appear consistently distinct and are recognized here. Other phases may be locally distinct but grade into other nearby phases. Delphinium parryi hybridizes with D. cardinale (D. ×inflexum Davidson). The Kawaiisu used the ground root of Delphinium parryi medicinally as a salve for swollen limbs (D. E. Moerman 1986, no subspecies specified). (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, p. 197. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Delphinium > sect. Diedropetala > subsect. Subscaposa | Ranunculaceae > Delphinium | ||||||||||||||||
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Name authority | A. Gray: Bot. Gaz. 12: 53. (1887) | Huth: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20: 420. (1895) | ||||||||||||||||
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