Delphinium xantholeucum |
Delphinium novomexicanum |
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yellow-white larkspur |
New Mexico larkspur, White Mountain larkspur |
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Stems | 40-60(-100) cm; base often reddish, glabrous, ± glaucous. |
90-180(-250) cm; base usually green, glabrous. |
Leaves | blade round, 2-6 × 4-10 cm, nearly glabrous; ultimate lobes 3-15, width 3-8 mm (basal), 1-5 mm (cauline). |
blade round to pentagonal, 5-10 × 8-18 cm, nearly glabrous; ultimate lobes 5-21, width 4-15 mm. |
Inflorescences | 10-20(-60)-flowered, narrowly pyramidal; pedicel spreading, yellowish, 1.5-3 cm, ± glandular-puberulent; bracteoles 6-12 mm from flowers, green to light brown, linear to lanceolate, 4-7 mm, nearly glabrous. |
(20-)30-70(-140)-flowered; pedicel 0.5-1.5 cm, puberulent; bracteoles 1-3 mm from flowers, green, linear, 5-8 mm, puberulent. |
Flowers | sepals yellow, glabrous, lateral sepals reflexed, 9-12 × 3-5 mm, spurs straight, ascending ca. 45° above horizontal, 11-15 mm; lower petal blades elevated, exposing stamens, 3-5 mm, clefts 1-2 mm; hairs centered mostly on inner lobes near base of cleft, white. |
sepals (in bud) purple to lavender, fading brownish, puberulent, lateral sepals ± forward pointing, 7-11 × 4-5 mm, spurs straight to gently decurved, ascending 30-45° above horizontal, 7-11 mm; lower petal blades ± covering stamens, 3.5-6 mm, clefts 1-2 mm; hairs mostly centered between base of cleft and junction of blade and claw, white or yellow. |
Fruits | 15-22 mm, 3-4 times longer than wide, glabrous to glandular-puberulent. |
12-16 mm, 3-4 times longer than wide, puberulent. |
Seeds | seed coat cells narrow, short, cell margins straight, surfaces smooth. |
wing-margined; seed coat cells elongate, surfaces ± roughened. |
2n | = 16. |
= 16. |
Delphinium xantholeucum |
Delphinium novomexicanum |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering summer to early autumn. |
Habitat | Slopes in open yellow pine forests, grasslands, sage scrub | Meadows in coniferous forest |
Elevation | 150-600 m (500-2000 ft) | 2200-3900 m (7200-12800 ft) |
Distribution |
WA
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NM |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Delphinium xantholeucum is very local; much of the habitat of this species has been converted to orchards. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Delphinium novomexicanum represents the southern Cordilleran complex in the Sacramento and White mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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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Synonyms | D. sierrae-blancae | |
Name authority | Piper: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 11: 280. (1906) | Wooton: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 37: 37. (1910) |
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