Aconitum
Aconitum, known as aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, leopard's bane, women's bane, Devil's helmet or blue rocket, is a genus of flowering plant belonging to the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). There are over 250 species of Aconitum.
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| Genus: | Aconitum L., 1753
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Aconitum Media
Northern blue monkshood (A. noveboracense)
Dissected flower of Aconitum vulparia, showing the nectaries
Aconitum delphinifolium growing in its natural habitat. The plant thrives in wet soil with good drainage, amongst fireweed, false hellebore, yarrow, alpine rice, alpine foxtail, nootka lupine, alpine bistort, devil's club, and cow parsnip in the rocky, tundra-like, mountainous terrain of Turnagain Pass, Alaska.
Monkshood, Aconitum napellus
Plant as used in Chinese-style herbology (in Japanese) (crude medicine)
Subgenera of Aconitum and related taxa
- Aconitumnapellus
Trailing white monkshood (A. reclinatum)
Southern blue monkshood (A. uncinatum)
Wild Alaskan monkshood (A. delphinifolium) is a flowering species that belongs to the family Ranunculaceae. The picture was taken in Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
