飞燕草 fei yan cao

Delphinium rugulosum Boissier, Ann. Sci. Nat. 16: 361. 1841.

Stem 5--10 cm tall, puberulent, simple or branched. Basal leaf 1, cauline leaves ca. 2, shortly petiolate; petiole ca. 0.8 cm; leaf blade rhombic or broadly so, 3-sect, 0.7--1.7 × 0.6--1.3 cm, papery, sparsely puberulent, base cuneate or broadly so; seg-ments 1 or 2 × dissected or undivided, ultimate lobules linear. Raceme 3.5--7.5 cm, 3--5-flowered, puberulent and mixed with a few yellow, glandular hairs; bracts leaflike. Pedicels 1--3 mm; bracteoles proximal, linear, ca. 2 mm. Sepals white, abaxially puberulent; upper sepal narrowly ovate, ca. 6.5 × 3 mm, spur subulate, ca. 1.8 cm, base ca. 3 mm in diam.; other sepals ca. 6.5 mm. Petals 3-lobed, glabrous. Filaments glabrous. Ovary densely puberulent. Follicle 0.9--1.2 cm, pubescent, reticulate. Seeds ca. 1.8 mm. Fl. Apr--May.

Grassy places; ca. 700 m. W Xinjiang [Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan; SW Asia].