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|accepted_name=Delphinium alabamicum
|accepted_authority=Kral
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=6: 250. 1976
|year=1976
}}
|common_names=Alabama larkspur
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ranunculaceae;Delphinium;Delphinium sect. Diedropetala;Delphinium subsect. Grumosa;Delphinium alabamicum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ranunculaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Delphinium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Delphinium sect. Diedropetala]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subsection</small>[[Delphinium subsect. Grumosa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Delphinium alabamicum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>(45-)60-90(-130) cm; base reddish, pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal; basal leaves 2-6 at anthesis; cauline leaves 1-4 at anthesis; petiole 0.5-22 cm. <b>Leaf</b> blade reniform to semicircular, 2-11 × 3-19 cm, nearly glabrous; ultimate lobes 3-35, width 3-8 mm (basal), 0.5-3 mm (cauline), widest at middle or in proximal 1/2. <b>Inflorescences</b> 5-27-flowered; pedicel 1-5 cm, puberulent; bracteoles 3-12 mm from flowers, green, linear, 2-8 mm, puberulent. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals royal blue, ± drab, often partly fading upon drying, puberulent, lateral sepals spreading, 12-20 × 5-10 mm, spurs straight, horizontal to slightly ascending, (13-)15-16.5(-19) mm; lower petal blades ± covering reproductive parts, 4-10 mm, clefts 3-5 mm; hairs centered between claw and base of cleft, covering most of adaxial surface, white. <b>Fruits</b> 11-18 mm, 2.5-3 times longer than wide, sparsely puberulent. <b>Seeds</b> unwinged; surface of each seed coat cell with with swollen, blunt, hairlike structures, barely visible at 20×, otherwise smooth. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid-late spring.
|habitat=Very local, thin soils in and on edges of Juniperus glades on limestone substrates
|elevation=100-300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>In addition to the Alabama sites, <i>Delphinium alabamicum</i> is known from one population in Georgia; it might have been transplanted there. <i>Delphinium alabamicum</i> has not been seen in central Alabama since 1950; populations there might have been extirpated.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Delphinium alabamicum
|authority=Kral
|rank=species
|parent rank=subsection
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ranunculaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid-late spring.
|habitat=Very local, thin soils in and on edges of Juniperus glades on limestone substrates
|elevation=100-300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ga.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=1976
|special status=Conservation concern;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_531.xml
|genus=Delphinium
|section=Delphinium sect. Diedropetala
|subsection=Delphinium subsect. Grumosa
|species=Delphinium alabamicum
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