117 — Number of the plant

at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7

Classification

► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants

► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons

► Subclass Magnoliidae

► Order Ranunculales

► Family Ranunculaceae - Buttercup family

Synonyms

Common names

Delphinium (English)

Larkspur (English)

Pied d'alouette (French)

 

Дельфиниум (Russian)

Description

Small single or double cupped flowers with irregular overlapping petals and a conspicuous wrinkled and hooked spur; in white and many shades of blue and pink, rarely red and yellow; borne in tall dense racemes above the leaves. Annual, biennial or perennial herb with deeply cut palmate leaves valued for garden borders and beds.