SPERMATOPHYTA RANUNCULACEAE 



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Distribution. The Prairie Larkspur is common on sandy soil, gravelly 

 -knolls and prairies of Illinois and Wisconsin to Manitoba, Kansas and Arkan- 

 jsas. 



7. Delphinium Geyeri Greene 



A hairy perennial 1-2 feet high; leaves dull green, somewhat branched; 

 flowers in dense racemes, azure blue. 



Distribution. Common on the high plains of Colorado to Montana. 



Fig. 235. Carolina Larkspur 

 .(Delphinium Penardi). L,ike 

 other species of this genus it 

 iis poisonous. Common on prai- 

 ries and gravelly soil. (Ada 

 'Hayden.) 



Fig. 236. Purple larkspur (Delphinium bicolor) 

 is found in Montana and Westward. Poisonous. 

 (Chesnut, U. S. Dept. Agr.) 



Delphinium Mensiesii DC 



Glabrous below, at least at the very base, pubescent above with spreading 

 hairs, especially the inflorescence; leaves 5-parted, divisions 2 to 3-cleft; flowers 

 .large, deep-blue, in a loosely few to many-flowered simple raceme; upper petals 

 i/eined with purple; spur long and slender; ovaries somewhat tomentose. 



Distribution. Common from San Francisco, California, north to British 

 Columbia, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. 



