Description from Flora of China Delphinium Linnaeus sect.
Consolida de Candolle, Syst. Nat. 1: 341. 1817. Herbs annual.
Leaves basal and cauline; leaf blade palmately divided.
Inflorescence racemose or compoundly so. Pedicels usually
2-bracteolate. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic. Sepals 5,
petaloid, purple, blue, or white, upper one spurred. Petals 2,
connate, spurred, subentire or 3--5-lobed; spur nectariferous.
Staminodes absent. Stamens numerous; filaments lanceolate-
linear, 1-veined; anthers ellipsoid. Carpel 1; ovary many
ovulate. Style without a distinct stigma. Follicle narrowly
oblong, reticulate. Seeds subtetrahedral, densely transversely
squamulose winged. Consolida ambigua (Linnaeus) P. W. Ball &
Heywood, a native of SW Asia and S Europe, is often cultivated
in China as an ornamental. About 43 species: N Africa, W Asia, S
Europe; one species in China. (Authors: Wang Wencai; Michael J.
Warnock)