Monkshood

Water slipped by and beneath it, enough to send a trickle on down, but in the shade, a large, still pool had formed, and by its side long stalks of monkshood bent under the weight of their blue flowers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A few flowers remained in bloom, some pale lavender phlox that contrasted nicely against the brooding dark monkshood, and some roses, deep red climbers, their fragrance still heady this late in the season. ❋ Mariah Stewart (2010)

One day, I hope we'll sit over a drink (tea, wine, beer, coffee--I'm not fussy) and discuss family trees and troop movements and what to call things like monkshood before there were monks (well, that one's relatively easy: wolfsbane) and so on. ❋ Carla (2010)

The arrows must have been dipped in a poison extracted from the monkshood flower, and the urn was marked to make the lethal arrows distinctive. ❋ Boyd Morrison (2009)

It was a flower, the blossom of the monkshood plant. ❋ Boyd Morrison (2009)

Dame's rocket, sweet William, monkshood, and meadow rue -- the old-fashioned names are so much prettier. ❋ Gumbo Lily (2008)

The white monkshood (Aconitum reclinatum) is found in moist mountain woods and adjacent floodplains of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and is endangered in the state (Wiegman, 1985, p. 57). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Outside, the spikes of monkshood and delphinium stood erect and motionless against the shadow of the hillside. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The house door was standing open, and he went out beyond the porch, and stood where the monkshood rose at the corner of the garden bed. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Ah, my sorrowful, his cloister dreeping of his monkshood, how it is triste to death, all his dark ivytod! ❋ Unknown (2006)

The wolfsbane that grows in the U.S. is not the same species as the traditional blue stuff from Europe, either, and some werewolf afficionados insist that only the blue wolfsbane/monkshood will do. ❋ Holly (2006)

Pipichari has given me a small quantity of the poisonous paste, and has also taken me to see the plant from the root of which it is made, the Aconitum Japonicum, a monkshood, whose tall spikes of blue flowers are brightening the brushwood in all directions. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Upright stems of monkshood were interplanted with death cap mushrooms in wine casks cut in half. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Bloom (Rudolf Virag) died on the evening of the 27 June 1886, at some hour unstated, in consequence of an overdose of monkshood ❋ Unknown (2003)

How did the ice come by that lustrous blue-purple intense darkness? — and by that royal poison? — that laughing-snake gorgeousness of much monkshood. ❋ Unknown (2003)

That dark-blue, black-blue, terrible colour of the strange rich monkshood made ❋ Unknown (2003)

"It makes monkshood all the less appropriate for her." ❋ Unknown (2003)

They could have extracted aconite from monkshood, they could have gathered hemlock, or stopped his heart with digitalis, and the authorities would never have known why he had died. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)