Aconitum reclinatum A.Gray

Stem arising from fascicled, slender roots, slender and weak, sometimes erect and to 1 m, sometimes longer and reclining or scrambling; cauline lvs many, deeply (3)5-cleft into cuneate-obovate segments, these sharply and coarsely incised above; infl elongate, usually branched, the axis and pedicels with short, incurved hairs; fls white or ochroleucous; helmet about twice as high as long, produced above into a conic or subcylindric hood. Rich woods; mts. and upper Piedmont from sw. Pa. to W.Va., Va., N.C., and reputedly n. Ga. June–Sept.