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Garden Monkshood

Aconitum plicatum

Garden Monkshood
Photo: Lubor Ferenc, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Grows as
Bulb
Safety
Toxic
Native range
EC. Europe (Sudeten Mts., Šumava Mts.)
Climate
temperate

About

Aconitum plicatum is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name garden monkshood.

Where it grows

This wildflower is native to Europe (Germany, Czech Republic and Poland). Inhabited biotops include tall herbaceous vegetation and ravine forests. Aconitum plicatum is also cultivated as ornamental plant.

Other Aconitum plants

Yellow monkshood · Aconitum assamicum · Aconitum biflorum · Aconitum bucovinense · Carmichael's monkshood · Columbian monkshood · Korean Monk’shood · Aconitum decipiens · Branched Monkshood · Indian aconite · Aconitum firmum · Fischer monkshood

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aconitum plicatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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