Delphinium trichophorum Franch.

Stem (25--)30--65 cm tall, hispid or subglabrous, usually simple. Leaf blade 4--20 cm wide, base cordate; primary lobes separate for less than 60% of blade radius; central lobe obovate-rhombic, 3-lobulate, distally incised dentate, apex acute; ultimate lobules ovate; proximal leaves usually not withered. Raceme tapered cylindric, (6--)14--24 cm, 11--50- or more flowered, hispid, white and yellow glandular puberulent, or subglabrous; proximal bracts leaflike, distal ones narrowly ovate or lanceolate, small. Pedicels 0.5--4 cm; bracteoles distal, colored like sepals, ovate or broadly lanceolate, 8--13 mm, strigose. Sepals bluish or purple, abaxially strigose; spur pendulous, cylindric-subulate or conic-subulate, 1.7--2.4 cm, base 3--8 mm in diam.; other sepals 1--1.8 cm. Petals emarginate or 2-lobed, usually glabrous. Staminode limb ovate, 3--4 mm, 2-lobed, glabrous or white ciliate. Filaments glabrous. Ovaries glabrous or densely puberulent. Fl. Jul--Oct. 2n = 16*.

C and S Gansu, E Qinghai, W Sichuan, E Xizang.

* Grassy slopes; 2100--4600 m.