| Aconitum maximum Pall. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Aconitum kamtschaticum Rchb. | ||
| Description | Upper part of root bulblike; stem glabrous below, pubescent above; up to 70 cm tall; basal leaves divided to base into many-cleft, acute, linear or lanceolate seg- ments; upper leaves reduced, merely lobed; inflorescence at first terminal, capitate, later prolonged, with longer pedicels; flowers pubescent, grayish-blue; hood nearly beakless. | ||
| Ecology | Subalpine thickets and meadows. | ||
| Uses | Root very poisonous. |
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.