Monk's-hood - Aconitum
The leaves are palmately divided or palmately lobed. The inflorescence is a terminal raceme of blue-purple flowers. The petals and sepals are similar in colour. The upper sepals form a hood over the flower.
On shaded banks and other shady places including woodland.
In flower during May and June.
Perennial, tuberous herb.
Widespread but infrequent in Britain. It is local in south west England and southern Wales and is usually found as a garden escape elsewhere in Britain.
Uncommon outside of the garden environment in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 2 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
25 June 2012
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
25 June 2012
David Gould
Narborough Bog
01 July 2014
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
25 June 2012
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
25 June 2012
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Ranunculales
- Family:
- Ranunculaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 13/06/2012 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 23/03/2022 (Calow, Graham)
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Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
13 June 2012
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
13 June 2012
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