Delphinium viridescens |
Delphinium sect. Diedropetala |
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Wenatchee 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 | 90-150 cm; base usually green, glabrous. |
1-8(-19) per root; base firmly attached to root or not. |
Leaves | blade cuneate to semicircular, 2-5 × 3-12 cm, nearly glabrous; ultimate lobes 3-21, width 1-8 mm. |
cauline and/or in basal rosette, gradually or abruptly reduced into bracts. |
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. |
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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 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). |
Fruits | 8-11 mm, 2.5-3 times longer than wide, puberulent. |
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Seeds | ± wing-margined; seed coat cells with surfaces ± roughened. |
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Delphinium viridescens |
Delphinium sect. Diedropetala |
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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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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Delphinium viridescens is local in mountains southwest of Wenatchee, Washington. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3, p. 197. |
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Delphinium > sect. Diedropetala > subsect. Multiplex | Ranunculaceae > Delphinium |
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Name authority | Leiberg: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 11: 39. (1897) | Huth: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 20: 420. (1895) |
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