Aconite flower

20 flowers, whose names derive from 20 Greek myths. From innocence to passion, flowers have many meanings in legends of ancient Greece.

Aconite. Deadly poisonous but beautiful.

Native to Western and Central Europe, Aconitum napellus brings showy, densely packed spikes of deep purplish-blue flowers and attractive foliage in the shade garden. Blooming for weeks from mid to late summer, the helmet shape of the flowers makes them resemble the hood worn by medieval monks, hence the common names of monkshood or helmet flower. Deer and rabbit resistant

This week’s theme on Ferrebeekeeper is “Flowers of the Underworld.” So far we have featured a ghostly-looking flower which is actually edible and a demonic looking flower which is actually medicina…

Flower: Aconite (wolfsbane); Meaning: Misanthropy in Victorian sense. In Latin, Aconitum means "poisonous flower" and in Greek mythology, the plant was thought to have sprung from the drops of spittle of Cerberus, the three-headed dog of the Underworld

Introduction: Aconitum napellus is a perennial herb with beautiful blue to dark purple blooms that is widely planted as an ornamental plant. Aconite is the common name for aconitum, a plant that looks like wild parsley or horseradish. Aconite has characteristic helmet-shaped blue or purple flowers. The colors of flowers may also be white, pink,

20 Seeds w/Instructions Also known as monkshood, wolf's bane, leopard's bane, mousebane, women's bane, devil's helmet, Queen of all Poisons, or blu

Just a pretty purple flower. The Aconite perennial

Wolfsbane