Knight´s spur

Popular garden plant and bee pasture. A perennial belonging to the buttercup family, up to 30 cm tall with purple, spurred, honey-scented calyx flowers and long, wrinkled spur and bell-shaped fruits up to 15 mm long. Flowering time: June to September, fruit ripening: September to October.

Used phytotherapeutically (without monograph): Consolidae regalis flos

Larkspur roots, seeds and herbs contain toxic diterpenes! Feared in cattle breeding.

Caution: Muscle cramps up to paralysis, death due to respiratory or cardiac arrest.

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