Monkshood: Aconitum dephinifolium

25 Sep, 2011
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This little wild wonder I've been going to collect for some years now. Finally bunches in the shady patches of the trail. Found wild in our deciduous hillsides, the monkshood thrives and is a delight in thin drifts across the greenery.

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Sixpence

Lovely deep colour

25 Sep, 2011

Greenthumb

Thanks. Aren't they? Depp and still translucent. You can see a bug taking harbor up in the hood of the bloom in the center.

25 Sep, 2011

Aleyna

Now thats a purple!!!

25 Sep, 2011

Meanie

Excellent!
Is this one of the "climbing" Aconitums?

26 Sep, 2011

Greenthumb

Thank you Aleyna, yes, this one is really a powerful runner in the blue category. :-) Many are deeper colored than this even.

Thank you Meanie. 'Climbing' would be an appropriate name. It a good 5-6 ft stem, but not strong, it usually runs along something else, more like' clamboring'. LOL. This are laying along the tops of the grasses, some twist up along the trunk of a tree.

26 Sep, 2011

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