World Species : Delphinium elatum (candle larkspur)

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Delphinium elatum (candle larkspur)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Delphinium elatum is a species of Delphinium known by the common name alpine delphinium or candle larkspur. There are several popular cultivars covering a range of colours from blue and purple to pink, cream, and white, which are grown as ornamental plants. D. elatum is also a source of hybrids.

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Infraspecies

Attributes

Allergen Potential ^[1]	Medium-Low

Flower Type ^[2]	Hermaphrodite
Hazards ^[2]	All parts of the plant are toxic; The plant is most toxic when it is young;
Lifespan ^[2]	Perennial
Structure ^[3]	Herb
Usage ^[2]	The seed contains 1.7% alkaloids and is used as an insecticide;

Height ^[2]	39 inches (1 m)
Width ^[2]	12 inches (0.3 m)

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Predators

Delphiniobium junackianum	^[4]
Sirococcus gibberoideus	^[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ ¹Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ ²Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ ³Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ ⁴Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ ⁵Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.

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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0