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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Slender stems above mostly basal leaves have spike-like clusters of irregular-shaped blue and white flowers; occasional reduced stem leaves.
Identification notes: Distinguished from other Delphinium by stems that are mostly leafless and flowers with blue sepals and white petals. Flowers have irregular petal-like sepals, a long spur and are along a spike-like stem.
Height:
20 inches
Habitat Description: Gravelly mesas, hillsides, open desert, juniper woodlands and grasslands, ponderosa pine forests.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 1500 - 8500 feet
Color:
Blue and white
Shape:
Irregular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Mar - Jun
Description:
Flower spike with 5 to 15 flowers; sepals 5, petal-like, to 1/2 inch long, blue, often with dark blue spots at tips; petals 4 in 2 unequal pairs, white; spur as long as sepals and bronze-tipped.
Leaf Color:
Dark green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Palmate
Leaf Margin:
Lobed
Leaf Attachment:
Basal and alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Palmately divided into lobes with rounded tips to 2-1/2 inches wide, sometimes with short hairs.
Fruit Color: Green
Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: 3 sectioned green seed capsule to 1/2 inch. 3 times longer than wide.
Seed Notes: Seeds are smooth, brick-shaped, dark brown.
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