Aconitum aconitum (scientific name: aconitum) of the family Ranunculaceae is an herbaceous plant of the genus Aconitum in the family Ranunculaceae. The roots are inverted and conical, the stem is up to 200 cm tall, the upper part of the middle is sparse and curved, the short soft hairs, and the leaves are equally spaced,

Ranunculaceae Aconitum

Aconitum (scientific name: aconitum) is an herbaceous plant of the genus Aconitum in the family Ranunculaceae. The roots are inverted and conical, the stems are up to 200 cm tall, the upper part of the middle is sparse and curved short soft hairs, and the leaves are equally spaced and branched. The leaves are thin leathery or papery, pentagonal, sharply pointed, lateral lobes of unequal length dichotomy, sparsely covered with short hairs on the surface, and usually only sparsely hairy short soft hairs along the veins on the back; petioles are sparse and short soft hairs. A apical inflorescence; and a shaft peduncle more or less densely curved and clinging short soft hairs; the lower bracts are three out, the others are narrowly ovate to lanceolate; the small bracts are in the middle or lower part of the peduncle, the sepals are blue-purple, with short soft hairs on the outside, the upper sepals are high helmet-shaped, the lower margin is slightly concave, the beak is inconspicuous, the petals are hairless, the stamens are hairless or sparsely hairless, the ovary is sparse or densely covered with short soft hairs, and the sparse hairless. The seeds are triangular and have transverse hymenal wings that are densely distributed only on both sides. Nine

It is found in eastern Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Guizhou, Hunan, northern Guangxi, northern Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, southern Shaanxi, southern Henan, eastern Shandong, southern Liaoning and northern Vietnam. It grows on grassy slopes or in bushes.