Aconitum lycoctonum

Aconitum lycoctonum (wolf's-bane[2] or northern wolf's-bane)[3] is a species of flowering plant in the genus Aconitum, of the family Ranunculaceae, native to much of Europe and northern Asia.[4][5]

Aconitum lycoctonum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Aconitum
Species:
A. lycoctonum
Binomial name
Aconitum lycoctonum
Synonyms[1]
List
    • Aconitum aegophonum Rchb.
    • Aconitum alienum Rchb.
    • Aconitum altissimum Mill.
    • Aconitum altissimum subsp. penninum (Ser.) Holub
    • Aconitum artophonum Rchb.
    • Aconitum australe Rchb.
    • Aconitum baumgartenii Schur
    • Aconitum cynoctonum Rchb.
    • Aconitum galeriflorum Stokes
    • Aconitum jacquinianum Host
    • Aconitum lagoctonum Rchb.
    • Aconitum luparia Rchb.
    • Aconitum lupicida Rchb.
    • Aconitum meloctonum Rchb.
    • Aconitum monanense F.W.Schmidt ex Rchb.
    • Aconitum myoctonum Rchb.
    • Aconitum perniciosum Rchb.
    • Aconitum pyrenaicum L.
    • Aconitum rectum Bernh. ex Rchb.
    • Aconitum rogoviczii Wissjul.
    • Aconitum squarrosum L. ex B.D.Jacks.
    • Aconitum tenuisectum Schur
    • Aconitum thelyphonum Rchb.
    • Aconitum theriophonum Rchb.
    • Aconitum toxicarium Salisb.
    • Aconitum transilvanicum Lerchenf. ex Schur
    • Aconitum umbraticola Schur
    • Aconitum wraberi Starm.
    • Delphinium lycoctonum Baill.
    • Lycoctonum sylvaticum Fourr.
Follicles and seeds

Lycoctonum is a rendering in modern Latin of the traditional name "wolf's-bane".[6]

It is an herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1 m tall. The leaves are palmately lobed with four to six deeply cut lobes. The flowers are 18–25 mm long, dark violet, rarely pale yellow.[7]

Like all species in the genus, it is poisonous.[7]

References
  1. "Aconitum lycoctonum L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  2. BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  3. Pharmacographica indica Vol 1
  4. Flora Europaea: Aconitum lycoctonum
  5. "Aconitum lycoctonum". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  6. Shorter Oxford English dictionary, 6th ed. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. 2007. p. 3804. ISBN 978-0199206872.
  7. Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). Flora of Britain and Northern Europe. ISBN 0-340-40170-2


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