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lobed and toothed; racemes usually dense or in robust plants more open and often branched; 

 pedicels ascending, about as long as the spur or the lower sometimes more elongated, villous- 

 pubescent to glabrate ; sepals whitish more or less tinged with green and lavender, more or less 

 densely short- villous, not recurved, 6-7 mm. long ; spur stout, 6-8 mm. long ; upper petals lobed, 

 the upper lobe longer, villous, lower petals densely villous; filaments villous above; follicles 

 erect, 10 mm. long, villous throughout, varying to glabrous. 



Partially shaded slopes and ravines, Upper Sonoran and Humid Transition Zones; California Coast Ranges, 

 from Sonoma County to San Luis Obispo County. Type locality: California, collected by Douglas. April-June. 



19. Delphinium viridescens Leiberg. Wenatchee Larkspur. Fig. 1796. 



Delphinium viridescens Leiberg, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 11: 39. 1897. 



Stems arising from an elongated woody root, 8-15 dm. high, leafy, glabrate or puberulent 

 below, densely viscid-pubescent with spreading yellowish hairs. Leaves semi-orbicular, 8-10 cm. 

 broad, thinnish, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, 5-parted, the divisions cuneate, 3-lobed, the 

 lobes linear-lanceolate, entire or often with a small narrow tooth; raceme elongated, 3-8 dm. 

 long, very narrow and rather open, pedicels erect, 1-2 cm. long, densely pubescent and viscid 

 with spreading yellowish hairs ; sepals erect, 6-8 mm. long, green, tinged with brownish purple, 

 the spur straight, 10 mm. long; upper petals glabrous, notched; follicles erect, 7 mm. long; 

 seeds narrowly winged on the angles. 



Wet meadows, Arid Transition and Canadian Zones; Wenatchee Valley, Washington. Type locality: near 

 Peshastin, Chelan County. June—Aug. 



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1790. Delphinium uliginosum 



1791. Delphinium Hansenii 



1792. Delphinium bicolor 



1793. Delphinium trolliifolium 



1794. Delphinium scopulorum 



1795. Delphinium calif ornicum 



