Saturday, November 19, 2011

Poisonous nortern temperate plant with yellow hood-like flowers?

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Poisonous nortern temperate plant with yellow hood-like flowers?
This is Aconitum ssp. Family Ranunculaceae.


Common names...wolfs bane, monkshood, aconite.


All parts can be fatal if ingested. They grow naturally in forest areas and along creek banks, they prefer a moist soil. Cultivars of this plant are used as herbaceous perennials in borders.


They have semi trailing stems with the upper part of the flower resembling a hood or helmet
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Aconitum vulparia


a member of the buttercup family
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Reply:Winter aconite, small flower about 1/2 inch across starting to flower now.


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