Delphinium glaucum S. Wats.
 
FamilyRanunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae
SynonymsDelphinium scopulorum var. glaucum (S. Wats.) Gray., Delphinium brownii Rydb.
DescriptionStems up to 2 meters tall, coarse and glabrous, from woody, fibrous caudex; leaves palmatifid; segments incised and toothed, acute; racemes many-flowered, long, glabrous or somewhat pubescent; lower bracts leaflike, reduced upward; flowers dark violet-purple; spur 8-10 mm long; follicles glabrous or sometimes puberulent, especially when young.
EcologyWet meadows, thickets.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.