Consolida ajacis

Garden field Larkspur ( Consolida ajacis )

The garden field Larkspur ( Consolida ajacis ), also known as garden delphinium and larkspur Hyazinthenblütiger summer, is a plant of the genus Delphinium field ( Consolida ) in the family of the buttercup family ( Ranunculaceae ). He is originally native to warm to hot temperate Europe and Africa and with some varieties used as an ornamental plant.

• 4.1 Notes and references

Description

Vegetative characteristics

The garden field Larkspur is like all field Delphiniums annual growth, reaching heights of 30 to 100 centimeters. The stems are hairy hairless to sparsely fluffy. There are two to twenty or more permanent change leaves present. The lower leaves are stalked and sit the top. The circular with a diameter of 1 to 5 cm in outline leaf blade is hairy bald until fluffy; it is fiederteilig and has from 12 to 60 or more leaf sections. The leaf sections are not more than 1.5 mm wide.

Generative features

The flowering period extends from June to August. The racemose inflorescences are simple or have a maximum of three branches and usually contain 6 to 30, rarely up to 75 flowers. At least the bottom two supporting leaves have five or more leaf sections. The more or less fluffy hairy prophylls are at a length of 1 to 5 millimeters, more or less linear and do not reach the substrate and flowers are removed from it usually 4 to 20 mm. The ascending or spreading, usually 1-3, rarely up to 5 cm long flower stem is hairy, more or less downy.

The hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic. Of the five outer bloom cladding the lower 8 to 18 mm long and 4-8 mm wide, and the side is 8 to 18 mm long and 6-14 mm wide. From the inner side the bloom cladding 3 to 6 mm long, and the top 5 to 8 mm long and 2-4 mm wide. The color of the bloom is almost bald blue, blue -violet to purple, with the varieties also light blue, white, pink or red. In some varieties the flowers are filled. The spur has a length of 12 to 20 millimeters. There are many stamens present. The stylus is 2 to 2.5 millimeters long.

The solitary, fluffy hairy follicles are 12 to 25 millimeters long and run out of the pen. The seeds are black.

The chromosome number is 2n = 16

Occurrence

Consolida ajacis is originally present in warm to hot temperate Europe and Africa. He has now also spread to North America, Asia and Australia. In Germany the Garden Larkspur is wild.

Consolida ajacis growing on debris on roadsides, rarely also on fields at altitudes of up to 2000 meters.

Use

The garden field Larkspur is since at least the late 18th century in culture and is still used occasionally as an ornamental plant for summer flowerbeds as well as a cut flower. In order not to be confused are garden delphiniums, the ( Delphinium elatum ) were grown from hybrids with the participation of the High larkspur. The garden field Larkspur is due to its content of various alkaloids (especially the eponymous Ajaconin ) toxic. He has also been used in folk medicine, for instance by the North American Cherokee as an infusion to treat heart ailments.

Documents

• Michael J. Warnock: Consolida. In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico, Volume 3, New York and Oxford 1997: Consolida ajacis - online. (Section Description and dissemination )
• Eckhart J. Hunter, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd Müller, K. (ed.): Rothmaler - Excursion Flora of Germany. Volume 5: Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8, p.133
• Garden field larkspur. In: FloraWeb.de.