General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 25-40 cm
Plant Spread: 25-30 cm
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Blue
Other: It might happen you get white flowers, it's a natural variation
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Suitable as Annual
Wildlife Attractant: Butterflies
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Fruit is poisonous
Other: Seeds
Propagation: Seeds: Depth to plant seed: cover the seeds very thin
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem

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Common names
  • Chinese Delphinium
  • Siberian Larkspur
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Delphinium grandiflorum
  • Synonym: Delphinium chinense

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Location: Portugal
Date: 2018-07-17
Bumblebee on delphinium
Location: Lincoln NE zone 5
Date: 2014-06-17
Beautiful blue flowers.  Reseeds gently.
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-11-14
Delphinium grandiflorum, 2016, Siberian larkspur, dell-FIN-ee-um
Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2014-06-22
Location: Temple, Texas
Date: 2021-04-27
Young specimen just purchased and planted (x6) in 21" pots in fro
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: Aug 1, 2008 7:49 PM
backlit by the warm setting sun light, brings out pinkish hues
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-11-14
Delphinium grandiflorum, 2016, Siberian larkspur, dell-FIN-ee-um
Location: Central Texas
Date: 2013-06-05
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: May 27, 2007 2:21 PM
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-05-17
Location: My garden, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; zone 3.
Date: 2012-07-18 
Self-sown colour variations.
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: May 27, 2007 2:22 PM
Location: My garden, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; zone 3.
Date: 2012-07-29
Location: My garden, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; zone 3.
Date: 2012-08-14
Location: my garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: May 27, 2007 2:21 PM
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