W60 



LOW LARKSPUR 



Delphi'nium bi'color 



Flowers dark blue or purplish (rarely 

 white), usually few, large and showy, 

 irregular, stalked; lower flower stalks 

 elongated, borne in -end clusters 

 (racemes) 



Sepals petal-like, dark blue or pur- 

 plish, egg-lance-shaped, sharp-pointed 

 or tapering; upper sepal spurred, up to 

 % in. long 



Petals in 2 pairs; upper pair "white or 

 yellowish, veined with blue, prolonged 

 backwards into a spur, enclosed in the 

 spurred sepal; lower pair cleft, usually 

 blue, with a tuft of hairs near the 

 middle; stamens numerous 



Leaves alternate, finely hairy, round 

 in outline, deeply parted into narrow, 

 linear or linear-oblong, blunt-tipped 

 segments; upper stem leaves smaller 



Stem up to 20 in. high, hollow, few- 

 leaved, hairy, sometimes sticky-hairy 

 above 



Roots thick, woody, elongate, often 

 clustered 



Seed pods (follicles) erect or curving, 

 3 to 5, more or less sticky-hairy; each 

 tipped by persistent, threadlike stalk 

 (style), splitting down along inside 

 ridge 



