Common Name: BUTTERCUP FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb, woody vine [shrub], occasionally aquatic. Leaf: generally basal and cauline, alternate or opposite, simple or compound; petioles at base generally flat, occasionally sheathing or stipule-like. Inflorescence: cyme, raceme, panicle, or flowers 1. Flower: generally bisexual, generally radial; sepals 3--6(20), free, early-deciduous or withering in fruit, generally green; petals 0--many, generally free; stamens generally 5--many, staminodes generally 0; pistils 1--many, ovary superior, chamber 1, style 0--1, generally +- persistent as beak, ovules 1--many. Fruit: achene, follicle, berry, +- utricle in Trautvetteria, in aggregate or not, 1--many-seeded. Genera In Family: +- 60 genera, 1700 species: worldwide, especially northern temperate, tropical mountains; many ornamental (Adonis, Aquilegia, Clematis, Consolida, Delphinium, Helleborus, Nigella). Toxicity: some highly TOXIC (Aconitum, Actaea, Delphinium, Ranunculus). Note: Taxa of Isopyrum in TJM (1993) moved to Enemion; Kumlienia moved to Ranunculus. eFlora Treatment Author: Margriet Wetherwax & Dieter H. Wilken, family description, key to genera Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: LARKSPUR Habit: Annual, generally from taproot. Stem: erect, generally 1, branched or not. Leaf: deeply palmately or palmate-pinnately lobed or dissected, cauline merging into bracts distally. Inflorescence: raceme, terminal; pedicels spreading to ascending. Flower: bilateral; sepals 5, petal-like, white to pink or blue [violet], uppermost spurred, others generally clawed; petals 2, fused, generally 1--3-lobed, arched over stamens, color same as sepals or white, base with spur enclosed in uppermost sepal spur; pistil 1. Fruit: follicle 1, erect. Seed: brown [black], minutely scaly in rows. Etymology: (Latin: consolidate, from reported healing of wounds) Note: Segregate of Delphinium. eFlora Treatment Author: Jason A. Koontz, Michael J. Warnock & Dieter H. Wilken Unabridged Reference: Keener 1976 Castanea 41:12--20
Consolida ajacis (L.) Schur
NATURALIZED Habit: Plant +- puberulent except stem glabrous proximally. Stem: 45--100 cm. Leaf: short-petioled, segments 14--21, < 2 mm wide, linear. Inflorescence: flowers (3)8--21(60); pedicels 5--16 mm. Flower: lateral sepals 8--15 mm, spur 12--18 mm. Fruit: 9--18 mm, generally puberulent. Chromosomes: 2n=16. Ecology: Disturbed soils, generally a waif; Elevation: < 300 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCoRI, CCo, SnFrB, SCo, WTR, MP; Distribution Outside California: to eastern United States; native to Europe. Flowering Time: May--Jul Synonyms: Consolida ambigua (L.) P.W. Ball & Heywood, misappl. Jepson eFlora Author: Jason A. Koontz, Michael J. Warnock & Dieter H. Wilken Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Consolida Next taxon: Coptis
Citation for this treatment: Jason A. Koontz, Michael J. Warnock & Dieter H. Wilken 2012, Consolida ajacis, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=20161, accessed on April 19, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 19, 2024.
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