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A larkspur Delphinium scaposum from the deserts of Arizona, USA. With the exception of a few African species, the delphiniums are natives of northern temperate regions.

Any of a group of plants containing about 250 species, including the butterfly or Chinese delphinium (Delphinium grandiflorum), an Asian form and one of the ancestors of the garden delphinium. Most species have blue, purple, or white flowers on a long spike. (Genus Delphinium, family Ranunculaceae.)



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The giant poppies I had planted out in them in April have either died off or remained quite small, and so have the columbines; here and there a delphinium droops unwillingly, and that is all.
Iris and white lilies rose out of the grass in sheaves, and the green alcoves filled themselves with amazing armies of the blue and white flower lances of tall delphiniums or columbines or campanulas.
 
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