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Delphinium patens; photograph Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAEugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Delphinium patens Benth.

Ranunculaceae · California, Mexico Northwest

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Delphinium patens, photograph Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDelphinium patens, photograph Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDelphinium patens, photograph Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDelphinium patens, photograph Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDelphinium patens, photograph Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDelphinium patens, photograph Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Delphinium patens is a species of larkspur known by the common names zigzag larkspur and spreading larkspur. It is a wildflower limited mainly to California. Though not yet confirmed there, it is expected in Baja California. Plants grow typically 20 to 50 centimeters tall and bear up to 36 flowers each. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Delphinium patens", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Delphinium

Delphinium is a genus of about 300 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native throughout the Northern Hemisphere and also on the high mountains of tropical Africa. The genus was erected by Carl Linnaeus.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Delphinium", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

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Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeCalifornia, Mexico Northwest · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

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Other Delphinium 71 in the reference

Delphinium ajacis Delphinium ajacis Rocket larkspur Photo: CC BY, olmagonDelphinium alabamicum Delphinium alabamicum Alabama larkspur Photo: CC0, author not statedDelphinium anthriscifolium Delphinium anthriscifolium Ranunculaceae Photo: CC BY, mami_t_tDelphinium bakeri Delphinium bakeri Baker's larkspur Photo: CC BY, Trevor Van LoonDelphinium barbeyi Delphinium barbeyi Barbey's larkspur Photo: CC BY, Alissa Iverson Delphinium beesianum Ranunculaceae Delphinium bicolor Delphinium bicolor Little larkspur Photo: CC0, author not statedDelphinium brunonianum Delphinium brunonianum Musk larkspur Photo: CC BY, Johannes S. Delphinium bulleyanum Ranunculaceae Delphinium caeruleum Ranunculaceae Delphinium californicum Delphinium californicum California larkspur Photo: CC0, author not statedDelphinium cardinale Delphinium cardinale Scarlet larkspur Photo: CC0, author not stated all 72 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Delphinium tricorne var. patens; Delphinium decorum var. patens. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Ranunculaceae
Described by
Benth.
Native to
California, Mexico Northwest
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Delphinium patens Benth. (plant_name_id 2760205), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 710886-1, POWO 710886-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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