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Scientific Name: | Aconitum napellus |
Common Name: | monkshood |
Family Name: | Ranunculaceae |
Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe, North America |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
Form: | Oval - vertical |
Texture: | Fine |
Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Perennial border, Summer interest, Woodland margin |
Exposure: | Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Dissected, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Orbicular, Incised, Lacerate, Palmately lobed |
Flowers: | Raceme, Blue, Violet, Jun-Jul |
Fruit: | Follicle, Brown, Oct-Nov |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves dark green, deeply divided into 5-7 toothed lobes; florets "monk-hooded", deep purplish-blue to violet, in dense, terminal racemes up to 20cm long in early summer. |