Delphinium grandiflorumL.

Siberian larkspur

WFO wfo-0000640138 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Delphinium grandiflorum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-12 / obs. 158445185
Delphinium grandiflorum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158442581
Delphinium grandiflorum, photographed by Egor Dyukarev
fig. c Egor Dyukarev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152140729
Delphinium grandiflorum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 94421606
Delphinium grandiflorum, photographed by Юлия
fig. e Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81563603
Delphinium grandiflorum, photographed by Юлия
fig. f Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76953054
Delphinium grandiflorum, photographed by Vsevolod Rudyi
fig. g Vsevolod Rudyi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29487949
Delphinium grandiflorum, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. h Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58524240

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Delphinium grandiflorum is native: Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Qinghai, Tibet, Tuva, Yakutiya AmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaQinghaiTibetTuvaYakutiya Korea
Native distribution of Delphinium grandiflorum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Qinghai CHQ
Tibet CHT
Tuva TVA
Yakutiya YAK

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 91 in flower of 109 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Delphinium grandiflorum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 91 of 109 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 21 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Chienia honanensis W.T.Wang
  • Delphinastrum grandiflorum Spach
  • Delphinium bonatii H.Lév.
  • Delphinium chefoense Franch.
  • Delphinium chinense Fisch. ex DC.
  • Delphinium fangshanense W.T.Wang
  • Delphinium gilgianum Pilg. ex Gilg & Loes.
  • Delphinium grandiflorum f. album T.J.Feng & J.X.Huang
  • Delphinium grandiflorum f. glanduliferum W.T.Wang
  • Delphinium grandiflorum f. heterotrichum W.T.Wang
  • Delphinium grandiflorum f. roseolum Y.Z.Zhao
  • Delphinium grandiflorum var. chinense Fisch. ex DC.
  • Delphinium grandiflorum var. glandulosum W.T.Wang
  • Delphinium grandiflorum var. grandiflorum
  • Delphinium grandiflorum var. pilosum Y.Z.Zhao
  • Delphinium grandiflorum var. robustum W.T.Wang
  • Delphinium grandiflorum var. tigridum Kitag.
  • Delphinium grandiflorum var. villosum W.T.Wang
  • Delphinium mosoynense Franch.
  • Delphinium sinense Fisch. ex Link
  • Delphinium virgatum J.Jacq. ex Spreng.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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