Delphinium variegatum |
Delphinium andesicola |
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royal larkspur |
Chiricahua Mountain larkspur |
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Stems | (10-)20-50(-80) cm; base reddish or not, not longitudinally ridged, long-pubescent. |
60-200 +cm; base reddish or not, glabrous, glaucous. |
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Leaves | blade round to pentagonal, 1-4.5 × 2-6 cm, pubescent; ultimate lobes 3-15, width 3-8 mm (basal), 2-5 mm (cauline). |
blade cordate to semicircular, 5-8 × 5-12 cm, nearly glabrous; ultimate lobes 5-16, width 3-20 mm, tips gradually tapered to mucronate apex; midcauline leaf lobes more than 3 times longer than wide. |
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Inflorescences | (4-)6-17(-20)-flowered, open; pedicel 0.5-3(-7) cm, usually puberulent; bracteoles 2-7(-23) mm from flowers, green, linear-lanceolate, 3-8 mm, puberulent. |
20-80-flowered; pedicel 1-2(-3) cm, puberulent; bracteoles 1-3 mm from flowers, green to brown, linear-lanceolate, 3-6 mm, puberulent. |
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Flowers | sepals usually deep royal blue, sometimes bright blue to light blue or white, ± finely pubescent, lateral sepals spreading, 10-18(-25) × 6-10 mm, spurs straight, ascending ca. 30° above horizontal, 10-19 mm; lower petal blades slightly elevated, ± exposing stamens, 4-11 mm, clefts 0.5-3.5 mm; hairs sparse, more on inner lobes than outer lobe or centered, scattered on margins, white or yellow. |
sepals purple, puberulent, lateral sepals spreading, 9-12 × 5-7 mm, spurs ascending ca. 45°, curved downward apically, purple, 10-13 mm, blunt tipped; lower petal blades ± covering stamens, 4-6 mm, clefts 1.5-2.5 mm; hairs centered, densest on inner lobes near base of cleft, white. |
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Fruits | 9-19 mm, 2.2-3.8 times longer than wide, ± puberulent. |
12-15 mm, 3.5-4 times longer than wide, sparsely puberulent. |
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Seeds | not echinate, appearing ± smooth to naked eye; seed coat cells with margins ± undulate, surfaces roughened. |
unwinged; seed coat cells elongate, surfaces pustulate. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Delphinium variegatum |
Delphinium andesicola |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–early fall. | |||||||||
Habitat | Meadows and coniferous woods | |||||||||
Elevation | 2200-3200 m (7200-10500 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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AZ |
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Discussion | Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Delphinium andesicola, the westernmost representative of the southern Cordilleran complex, is found in the Chiricahua, Huachuca, Graham, and White mountains. Hybrids with Delphinium scopulorum are known. (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. Echinata | Ranunculaceae > Delphinium > sect. Diedropetala > subsect. Exaltata | ||||||||
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Synonyms | D. andesicola subsp. amplum | |||||||||
Name authority | Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 32. 183: not D. variegatum Baillon 1883 | Ewan: J. Washington Acad. Sci. 29: 476. (1939) | ||||||||
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