OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Ranunculales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Delphinium ajacis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Consolida ajacis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Consolida ajacis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3 (1997)

Consolida ajacis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Delphinium ambiguum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)

Consolida ambigua

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-03-001:

Delphinium ajacis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Delphinium ajacis

 

COMMON NAME:
Rocket Larkspur, Garden Larkspur


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image of Delphinium ajacis, Rocket Larkspur, Garden Larkspur

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_deaj_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Delphinium ajacis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Consolida ajacis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Consolida ajacis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 3
Consolida ajacis

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Delphinium ambiguum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Consolida ambigua

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 076-03-001:
Delphinium ajacis   FAMILY Ranunculaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Delphinium ajacis

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3208

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Roadsides, fields, waste places, disturbed ground, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Europe

Common in Carolina Piedmont (uncommon to rare in elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple: dissected into linear or filiform segments
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Deep bluish-violet (usually), ranging through pink to pure white
Not symmetrical
5 sepals (one of them spurred)
Two petals
Numerous stamens
Superior ovary

Flowers in a raceme

FRUIT:
Follicle

 

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