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Forking Larkspur

Delphinium consolida

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 558, February 412, March 646, April 1,016, May 1,465, June 1,597, July 1,709, August 1,470, September 1,079, October 805, November 440, December 344.
United States11,578
Alaska11,541
Russia4,761
Ukraine1,171
Austria583
Czechia465
Penza Oblast424
Voronezh Oblast417
Poland396
Niederösterreich396

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderButtercups, Poppies, and Allies · Ranunculales
Familybuttercup family · Ranunculaceae
Genuslarkspurs · Delphinium

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Forking Larkspur with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.