Delphinium viridescens |
Delphinium parishii |
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Wenatchee larkspur |
desert larkspur, Parish's larkspur |
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Stems | 90-150 cm; base usually green, glabrous. |
(17-)30-60(-100) cm; base reddish or not, glabrous to puberulent. |
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Leaves | blade cuneate to semicircular, 2-5 × 3-12 cm, nearly glabrous; ultimate lobes 3-21, width 1-8 mm. |
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). |
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Inflorescences | 25-80-flowered, dense; pedicel 0.5-2 cm, glandular-pubescent; bracteoles 1-4 mm from flowers, green, lanceolate, 3.5-6 mm, glandular-pubescent. |
(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. |
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Flowers | sepals yellowish green, nearly glabrous, lateral sepals forward pointing, 7-9 × 3-4 mm, spurs decurved, 30-45° below horizontal, often hooked apically, 8-11 mm; lower petal blades ± covering stamens, 4-6 mm, clefts 0.5-1.5 mm; hairs centered, mostly near junction of blade and claw, yellow. |
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. |
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Fruits | 8-11 mm, 2.5-3 times longer than wide, puberulent. |
9-21 mm, 2-4 times longer than wide, glabrous to puberulent. |
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Seeds | ± wing-margined; seed coat cells with surfaces ± roughened. |
seed coat cells ± brick-shaped, cell margins undulate, surfaces roughened. |
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Delphinium viridescens |
Delphinium parishii |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||||||
Habitat | Wet meadows and streamsides in coniferous forest, heavy clay soils | |||||||||
Elevation | 500-1000 m (1600-3300 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
WA
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AZ; CA; NV; UT; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Delphinium viridescens is local in mountains southwest of Wenatchee, Washington. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). (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. Multiplex | Ranunculaceae > Delphinium > sect. Diedropetala > subsect. Subscaposa | ||||||||
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Name authority | Leiberg: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 11: 39. (1897) | A. Gray: Bot. Gaz. 12: 53. (1887) | ||||||||
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