Southern blue monkshood

Aconitum uncinatum, commonly known as wild monkshood or southern blue monkshood, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. It grows in moist to wet habitats along streams and in woods and clearings. It grows in the eastern United States in the Appalachian Mountains, on the Piedmont, and on the upper Atlantic Coastal Plain.

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Is it poisonous?

Toxic. The note covers its whole genus. All parts contain aconitine; among the most poisonous garden plants Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Aconitum sczukinii — toxic
• Aconitum noveboracense — toxic
• Aconitum carmichaelii — toxic
• Aconitum axilliflorum — toxic
• Aconitum taigicola — toxic
• Aconitum columbianum — toxic

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ranunculales

Family

Ranunculaceae

Genus

Aconitum

Species

Aconitum uncinatum

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