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What does monkshood mean?

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  1. (countable) Any of various poisonous plants, of the genus Aconitum, with blue or white flowers in the shape of a hood
  2. (uncountable) The dried leaves or flowers of these plants formerly used as a source of medicinal alkaloids
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Other wildflowers are common Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, two kinds of golden bellworts, hepatica, wild columbine, monkshood, bloodroot, toothwort, and wild ginger.
I was thinking of the stands of monkshood and wondering what might look good with that superb saturated blue.
It's a relative of the poisonous monkshood, equally toxic and rarely cultivated today.
If I am diligent I can get an extra few weeks out of the delphiniums, foxgloves and monkshood by removing the spent blooms.
Azalea, violets and towering monkshood blended with the coastal wildflowers.
It wasn't till I noticed the monkshood plants that I started telling myself how that way wouldn't hurt.

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