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BARBEY LARKSPUR 



Delphi'nium bar'beyi, syn. D. subalpi' num. 



Flowers dark blue (occasionally pink 

 or cream-colored), on narrow-bracted, 

 ascending, sticky-tawny-hairy stalks, 

 borne in rather short, dense, end clusters 



Seed pods (follicles) 3, hairless, often 

 bluish-veined, somewhat _ cylindrical, 

 short-oblong, somewhat joined at base, 

 erect, each tipped by persistent slender 

 stalk (style) and splitting down inside 

 ridge, many-seeded 





Leaves hairy, stalked, alternate, 

 rounded in outline, 3 to 6 in. broad, 

 palmately parted into usually 5 mam 

 divisions; each division mostly broad 

 and variously cleft or lobed 



Stems 1 to several, simple, erect, 2 to 

 7 ft. tall, leafy, stout, hollow, dark 

 green, hairy throughout but with 

 spreading, tawny hairs toward tops 



Petals 4, smaller than sepals, in two 

 unequal pairs: upper pair usually yel- 

 low tinged with blue, prolonged back- 

 ward into nectary-bearing spurs and 

 enclosed within sepal spur; lower pair 

 usually blue, each with narrow claw 

 and broad, wavy-edged blade, yellow- 

 haired on inner side 



Stamens numerous 



Outer flower parts (sepals) 5, petal- 

 like, irregular, with somewhat sticky, 

 yellowish hairs; upper sepal prolonged 

 into a spur as long or usually longer 

 than sepals 



Taproot deep, woody, perennial 



