Woolly-lipped aconite

Family Ranunculaceae. An East European species that grows in forests, predominantly mixed.

Perennial herbaceous plant with a thick root. Stem erect, 50–100 cm tall, ribbed at the base. Basal leaves 2–4, with glabrous or pubescent petioles 10–25 cm long and a blade 7–10 cm long and 14–20 cm wide, deeply 3–5-lobed, firm, with broad cuneate diverging lobes, shallowly incised into relatively broad terminal segments, with short and broad teeth, almost glabrous above with sparse appressed hairs, more densely pubescent beneath (especially along the veins); middle and upper stem leaves with short petioles or sessile. Inflorescence a dense raceme 20–35 cm long, branched in the upper part. Pedicels covered with slightly projecting, strongly curved simple hairs 0.2–0.4 mm long. Flowers yellow or light yellow, large; hood narrow, high-conical, noticeably longer than wide. Pistils three. Leaflets three, densely covered with appressed hairs. Flowers in July–August, fruits ripen in July–September.