Rocket Larkspur

Delphinium ajacis

Found in roadsides, fields, waste places, disturbed ground. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you

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Not native

Not native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?

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Light: Partial shade, Full sun
Soil moisture: Dry to moist

Delphinium ajacis — flower photograph — (c) Adrien Cozannet, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 · Original photograph

At a glance

Bloom: May to September

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Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Life cycle · Leaves

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 5 Florida counties.

Habitats

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. All habitats

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

7CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Delphinium

Endothenia hebesanaVerbena Bud Moth
Euxoa auxiliarisArmy Cut-Worm, Army Cutworm
Heliothis phloxiphagaSpotted Straw Sun Moth, Darker Spotted Straw Moth
Megalographa bilobaBilobed Looper Moth
Papaipema cataphractaBurdock Border, Potato-Stalk Borer
Pyrrhia ciliscaAmerican Bordered Sallow, Noble Sun Moth
Udea rubigalisCelery Leaftier

Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)

—BeesSoutheastern regional records

—Specialist beesPollen specialists

1BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

Recorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim · Delphinium

Centrocercus urophasianusGreater Sage-Grouse

Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)

Direct food only: birds recorded eating this genus across North America. Caterpillars on host plants also feed nesting birds. NC Native Plant Society: butterfly gardening

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: Ranunculaceae

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Growing sources and scope

Bloom · “May to September” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), phone app (app page) · Carolinas and Georgia
Light · “Partial shade; Full sun (documented habitat)” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), phone app (app page) · Carolinas and Georgia
Soil · “Dry; Moist (documented habitat)” · FloraQuest: Carolinas, Georgia (Southeastern Flora Team), phone app (app page) · Carolinas and Georgia

Also known as

Consolida ajacis

Conservation status

Florida rank	SNA
Global rank	GNR
FL status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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