LARKSPUR, in Botany

any north temperate, Old World annual of the genus Consolida of the buttercup family. Consolida species were formerly classified in the genus Delphinium, which includes similar annual, biennial, and perennial herbaceous plants of the northern temperate zone that are commonly called larkspurs or delphiniums. Plants of both genera are popular garden plants, especially favored for their blue-flowered varieties. In many cultivated larkspurs and delphiniums the spurred flowers, usually blue, pink, or white, rise in a spire above the deeply cut leaves. Most native North American delphinium species are poisonous to cattle. Larkspurs and delphiniums are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Ranunculales, family Ranunculaceae.

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Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple Introduction to Structural Botany: with a Popular Flora, or an Arrangement and Description of Common Plants, Both Wild and Cultivated
Book by Asa Gray; Ivison, Blakeman, 1858
Subjects: Botany
...Natural System of Classification in Botany, " III. " 96 . How to study...would be confusion and guess-work. In Botany the number of technical words which...continue the study in the Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology , and in...
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Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470-1670
Book by Agnes Arber; University Press, 1938
Subjects: Botanical Literature, Botany--History, Botany--Pre-Linnean Works--Bibliography, Herbs
...by adding sections dealing with botany in Spain and Portugal, and with the...knowledge both of modern botany, and of botany in the sixteenth century; and Dr A...permitted me to use the herbals in the Botany School, Cambridge; Prof. W. Rytz...
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The Green Earth: An Invitation to Botany
Book by Harold William Rickett; Jacques Cattell Press, 1943
Subjects: Botany
...that await the traveler in this promised land; that...the book an Invitation to Botany. The sciences have their...not tried to "popularize" botany in the sense of emptying it...much like that of courses in botany which I have taught. I am...
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Handbook of Plant and Floral Ornament: Selected from the Herbals of the Sixteenth Century, and Exhibiting the Finest Examples of Plant-Drawing Found in Those Rare Works, Whether Executed in Wood-Cuts or in Copperplate Engravings, Arranged for the Use of the Decorator
Book by Richard G. Hatton; Dover Publications, Inc., 1960
Subjects: Botany--Pre-Linnean Works, Decoration And Ornament--Plant Forms
...49.--BROAD-LEAFED LARKSPUR. DELPHINIUM PEREGRINUM...smaller scale is given in Fig. 54 , from the...18 in. Flower, 1 in. or more across...this and the Rocket Larkspur, D. consolida, were...especially in the Rocket Larkspur. In the kind Fig. 53...
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The World of Plant Life
Book by Clarence J. Hylander; Macmillan, 1939
Subjects: Botany--United States
...A. Munz " Manual of Southern California Botany ," W. H. Brown " The Plant Kingdom...The Struggle for Existence in the Plant World -- The Pondscum Parasites...Hellebore, Columbine, Baneberry, Aconite, Larkspur, Del phiniuin, Peony, Orange Root, Meadow...
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magazine articles on: Larkspur in Botany  - 5 results

 
 
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Prairie
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 105, November 1996
Subjects: Botany, Flowers & plants, Loess Hills, Prairies
...into early June, the prairie is in full bloom, with prairie larkspur, thimbleweed (a member of the buttercup...white flowers are arranged spirally in a terminal spike. Many of the prairie species that are found in the Loess Hills of northwestern...
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Exhibitions
Magazine article; PSA Journal, Vol. 70, December 2004
...Exhib. Forms at www.psa-photo.org/stereo.htm Jan. 19, 2005--OAKLAND INTL. STEREO EXHIBITION--Oleg Vorobyoff, P.O. Box 861, Larkspur, CA 94977; slides Fee US $6.00, $8.00 overseas. Barrie Bieler, 737 Wiget Lane, Walnut Creek, CA 94598; Cards Fee US $6.00...
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Garden on the Rocks
Magazine article by Susan P. Harrison, Arthur R. Kruckeberg; Natural History, Vol. 117, May 2008
Subjects: Building materials, California, Carbon dioxide, Chemicals, Magnesium, Power plants, Scientists, Soils, Studies, Sulfuric acid
...B. Walker, who is now a professor emeritus of botany at the University of Washington in Seattle, conducted a series of experiments in...buckwheat (Eriogonum nervulosum) and the swamp larkspur (Delphinium uliginosum). Besides the wealth of...
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Exhibitions
Magazine article; PSA Journal, Vol. 71, January 2005
...Exhib. Forms at www.psa-photo.org/stereo.htm Jan. 19, 2005--OAKLAND INTL. STEREO EXHIBITION--Oleg Vorobyoff, P.O.Box 861, Larkspur, CA 94977; slides Fee US $6.00, $8.00 overseas. Barrie Bieler, 737 Wiget Lane, Walnut Creek, CA 94598; Cards Fee US $6.00...
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Preserving "Nature's Artistry": Torrey Pines during Its Formative Years as a City and State Park
Magazine article by Victor A. Walsh; California History, Vol. 85, March 2008
Subjects: Environmental protection, Natural areas--History, Natural areas--Protection and preservation, Nature reserves--History, Nature reserves--Protection and preservation, San Diego, California--Environmental aspects
...Coll. #1411, box #38, 5 (quote), YOUNG. (32) Ralph D. Cornell, "Wanted: A Genuine Southern California Park," in Journal of Economic Botany 2, no. 2 (May 1912): 303 (quote). On Cornell, see "Ralph D. Cornell," National Cyclopedia of American Biography...


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Obituaries
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 23, 2004
...he settled in Eugene. He received a bachelors degree in botany in 1927 and a bachelors degree in zoology in 1932, both...Oklahoma. He received both a masters degree and a Ph.D. in botany in 1929 from the University of Chicago. He was employed...


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Larkspur , in Botany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LARKSPUR , in botany any north temperate...blue-flowered varieties. In many cultivated larkspurs and delphiniums the spurred...are poisonous to cattle. Larkspurs and delphiniums are classified in the division Magnoliophyta...


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