Monk's-hood
நஞ்சுகளின் அரசிവത്സനാഭി
Aconitum napellus L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- —
Ranunculaceae
Also called Monkshood, Wolfsbane, Queen of Poisons, Adam and Eve, Blue rocket
Formerly Delphinium napellus, Napellus vulgaris
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. & C. EuropeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, pink, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Blauer Eisenhut, Sturmhut, Blauer Sturmhut
- root
- ACONAP, Jedić, Poatermutse
- French
- Aconit casque de Jupiter, Aconit napel, Casque
- Estonian
- sinine käoking
- Dutch
- Blauwe monnikskap, Monnikskap
- Swedish
- Äkta stormhatt, Stormhattssläktet
- Norwegian Bokmål
- storhjelm, Storhjelm
- Russian
- Борец клобучковый
- Italian
- Aconito napello, Aconito, Napello
- Finnish
- huppu-ukonhattu, Aitoukonhattu, ukonhattu
- Macedonian
- Едич
- Vietnamese
- Chi Ô đầu
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Aconitum napellus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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