Roots 2-80 cm, tuberlike or fibrous, dry or fleshy; buds often less than 3 mm. Stems 1-8 (-19) per root; base firmly attached to root or not. Leaves cauline and/or in basal rosette, gradually or abruptly reduced into bracts. Flowers: sepals blue, purple, white, red, or yellow; lower petal blades often same color as lateral sepals, usually greater than 1/5 length of lateral sepals (exceptions in red and yellow-flowered species).

Selected References

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Michael J. Warnock +
usually larger +
cuneate +, truncate +  and cordate +
expanded +
straight +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
subopposite-subalternate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (?) +
globose;cylindric +
n temperate and arctic subtropical and +, in Eastern Hemisphere +  and tropical mountains (s of equator in Africa) +
sessile +  and pedicellate +
showy +  and inconspicuous +
sessile +  and aggregate +
curved-cylindric +
axillary +  and terminal +
less ovate +  and elliptic +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +
round +  and pentagonal or reniform +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
reduced +
lacerate;crenate +
clawed +, 2-lobed +, ovate +  and plane +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
palmate +  and pinnate +
incised;toothed;incised;toothed;entire +
distinct +
conspicuous +
spurred +, funnel--shaped +, cup-shaped +  and plane +
reduced +
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. +
2-100-flowered +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
tuberlike +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br />) +
fleshy +, dry +  and fibrous +
not arillate +  and stalked +
dark-brown +  and black +
rectangular +  and pyramidal +
yellow;red;yellow;red;white;purple;blue +
not persistent +
distinct +
3 +  and 6 +
not +  and veined +
1 +  and 8 +
persistent +
Delphinium sect. Diedropetala +
Delphinium +
section +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (2.4 cm24 mm <br />0.024 m <br />) +
herbaceous +  and woody +