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Scientific Name: | Aconitum carmichaelii |
Common Name: | autumn monkshood |
Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
Habit: | Stiffly upright |
Form: | Oval - vertical |
Texture: | Medium - coarse |
Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Fall interest, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Woodland margin |
Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Dissected, Alternate, Leathery, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Ovate, Dentate, Pinnately lobed |
Flowers: | Raceme, Blue, Violet, Sep-Oct |
Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Follicle, Green, Brown, Oct-Nov, (Persistent) |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves mostly with 3 or 5 main lobes and lobes are toothed; flowers 'hooded', blue-violet, and appear in the fall in racemes; stems sturdy and stay upright . |