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a flower so beautiful and so toxic it basically dares you to admire it
means Larkspur is the common name for the genus Delphinium, a tall garden plant with spurred blue, purple, or white flowers — handsome to look at and poisonous to eat.
from A plainly descriptive English name: the long, backward-pointing spur on each flower was thought to resemble a lark's hind claw or spur, so it became the 'lark's spur.' The botanical name Delphinium comes from the Greek delphinion, 'little dolphin,' because someone fancied the unopened bud looked like the curved body of a dolphin.
- contains poison
- Alkaloids can kill cattle that graze on it
- old name
- Called knight's spur for its talon-shaped petals
- july birth flower
- Official bloom for those born midsummer
- ancient ink
- Romans used its juice to kill lice
- victorian code
- Meant fickleness and an open heart in flower language
larkspur flower — delphinium genus plant with tall spired blue, purple, pink or white flowers found in meadows across northern hemisphere
larkspur california — town in marin county with population around 12,000, founded 1884 on san francisco bay