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Guide to Delphinium

Ocean Fleskes

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Delphinium Flower Morphology

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Delphinium patens ssp. patens

  • Early flowerer from March to early May
  • Shaded, woodland habitats
  • Broad basal leaves, with deeply cut lobes
  • Glabrous plant, long even-length pedicels, long modest sepals that are splayed/reflexed, straight spurs, recurved fruit

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Delphinium patens ssp. patens

- Palmate leaves

- Lobes are deeply cut and not too wide (less than 1.5 cm)

- Long, even-length pedicels

- Relatively modest sepals that are reflexed/splayed

- Recurving fruit

- Straight spurs

- stems, pedicels, leaves, proximal portions mostly glabrous

Dan Fitzgerald

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Delphinium patens ssp. patens

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Delphinium variegatum ssp. variegatum

  • Early flowering, April to late May
  • Exposed, open grasslands
  • Dissected basal leaves, deeply lobed
  • Puberulent plant, very broad & widely splayed sepals, white upper petals, varying pedicel lengths

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Delphinium variegatum ssp. variegatum

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Delphinium variegatum ssp. variegatum