Delphinium nordhagenii - Pale-Petal Larkspur

Pale-Petal Larkspur is a flower closely similar to the more common Musk Larkspur, but with petals which are not black-brown. Sepals are blue, below finely velvet-hairy; spur conic or sac-like, 5-6 mm, base 6-7 mm in diameter; other sepals about 2 cm. Petals are 2-lobed, hairless, sometimes not black-brown. Staminode limb is narrowly elliptic, 2-cleft, yellow hairy. Flowers are borne in racemes 4-13 cm, 4-6-flowered, finely velvet-hairy and yellowish glandular finely velvet-hairy; bracts leaflike or lanceshaped. Flower-stalks are 2.8-6.8 cm; bracteoles distal, oblong-lanceshaped, 1-1.8 cm. Stem is about 28 cm tall, finely velvet-hairy and yellowish glandular, simple. Leaf blade is 8-10 cm wide, base heart-shaped; primary lobes separate for less than 60% of blade radius; central lobe flabellate-obovate, 3-lobulate, distally few toothed, tip pointed; ultimate lobules ovate; proximal leaves usually withered. Follicles are 4-5, 1-1.2 cm long, bearded. Flowering: July-August.