Life Span
Perennial
Perennial
Type
Flowering Plants
Flowering Plants, Perennial
Origin
Tropical Asia
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Types
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Yellow Monkshood, Carmichael's Monkshood, Kamchatka Aconite
Number of Varieties
0250
0
40000
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Habitat
Rocky Mountains, wastelands
low mountains
USDA Hardiness Zone
8-114-8
0
99
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AHS Heat Zone
-
-
Sunset Zone
-
1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
Habit
-
Upright/Erect
Plant Size
Minimum Height
60.00 cm130.00 cm
0
3900
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Minimum Width
40.00 cm80.00 cm
0
6350
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Plant Color
Flower Color
White
Blue, Violet
Flower Color Modifier
Bicolor
-
Fruit Color
-
-
Leaf Color in Spring
Dark Green
Green
Leaf Color in Summer
Light Green
Green
Leaf Color in Fall
Several shades of Green
Green
Leaf Color in Winter
Light Green
Green
Shape
Leaf Shape
Maple shaped
Upright
Thorns
✔
✘
✔
✘
Plant Season
Early Spring, Spring
Fall, Summer
Growing Conditions
Sunlight
Full Sun
Full Sun, Partial shade
Growth Rate
Fast
Medium
Type of Soil
Moist, Rich
Moist
The pH of Soil
-
-
Soil Drainage
Well drained
Well drained
Bloom Time
Spring, Summer
Early Fall, Late Summer
Repeat Bloomer
✔
✘
✔
✘
Tolerances
Drought
-
Where to Plant?
Bedding, Container, Ground
Ground
How to Plant?
Cuttings
Divison
Plant Maintenance
Low
Medium
Watering Plants
Watering Requirements
Water Deeply
Do Not over Water, Requires regular watering
In Summer
Lots of watering
Lots of watering
In Spring
Moderate
Moderate
In Winter
Average Water
Average Water
Soil
Soil pH
-
Neutral
Soil Type
Moist, Rich
Average, Moist
Soil Drainage Capacity
Well drained
Well drained
Sun Exposure
Full Sun
Partial Sun
Pruning
Remove dead leaves
Remove damaged leaves
Fertilizers
All-Purpose Liquid Fertilizer
All-Purpose Liquid Fertilizer
Pests and Diseases
Red blotch
Citrus leaf miner, Leaf spot, Mealy bugs, Mites, Rust, Verticillium Wilt
Plant Tolerance
Drought
Drought
Flowers
✔
✘
✔
✘
Flower Petal Number
Single
-
Fruits
Showy Fruit
✔
✘
✔
✘
Edible Fruit
✔
✘
✔
✘
Fragrance
Fragrant Flower
✔
✘
✔
✘
Fragrant Fruit
✔
✘
✔
✘
Fragrant Leaf
✔
✘
✔
✘
Fragrant Bark/Stem
✔
✘
✔
✘
Showy Foliage
✔
✘
✔
✘
Showy Bark
✔
✘
✔
✘
Foliage Texture
Fine
Bold
Foliage Sheen
Matte
Matte
Evergreen
✔
✘
✔
✘
Invasive
✔
✘
✔
✘
Self-Sowing
✔
✘
✔
✘
Attracts
-
Bees
Allergy
-
breathing problems, Nausea, Rapid Heartbeat, Sweating, Vomiting, weakness
Uses
Aesthetic Uses
-
Showy Purposes
Beauty Benefits
-
-
Edible Uses
✔
✘
✔
✘
Environmental Uses
Air purification
-
Plant Benefits
Medicinal Uses
-
Gout, Heart problems, Inflammation, Joint pain, Kidney problems, Nerve pain, Wounds
Part of Plant Used
Flowers
Whole plant
Other Uses
Used As Food
Used in herbal medicines
Used As Indoor Plant
✔
✘
✔
✘
Used As Outdoor Plant
✔
✘
✔
✘
Garden Design
Vegetable
Cutflower, Mixed Border
Botanical Name
Abelmoschus manihot
Aconitum variegatum
Common Name
Aibika, hibiscus spinach, ibika, bele
Aconite, Monkshood, Wolf's bane, Leopard's bane, Mousebane, Women's bane, Devil's helmet, Queen of all Poisons, or Blue rocket
In Hindi
aibika
बच्छनाभ
In German
Maniok-Bisameibisch
Eisenhut
In French
L'Aibika
aconit
In Spanish
Aibika
acónito
In Greek
aibika
monkshood
In Portuguese
Aibika
Aconitum
In Polish
aibika
tojad
In Latin
aibika
aconitum
Kingdom
Plantae
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malvales
Ranunculales
Family
Malvaceae
Ranunculaceae
Genus
Abelmoschus
Aconitum
Clade
-
Angiosperms, Eudicots
Tribe
-
Delphinieae
Subfamily
-
-
Number of Species
15250
1
27800
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