Common monkshood

Usage examples of napellus.

Lovingly, she dusted the droopy leaves and parched blossoms of her ailing Aconitum napellus.

Their monastery is still standing today and over its entrance gate the stone crest: a poisonous plant with five blue petals, the uppermost of which resembles a monk's hood -- the Aconitum napellus or blue monkshood.

Napellus, is the old- fashioned, familiar garden variety, which may be easily recognized by its very much cut- up leaves, which are wide in the shoulder of the leaf - that part nearest the stem - and also by the purplish- blue flowers, which have the 'helmet' closely fitting over the rest of the flower, not standing up as a tall hood.