Dwarf Larkspur
Delphinium tricorne
Blue, purple and white flowers from March into May, worked by black-and-gold bumble bees and sonoran bumble bees. It grows wild in 10 of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 2 ft to 3 ft tall, 1.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue, purple and white, Mar to May
- Roots
- Tuberous roots
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flower
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 10 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 7 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Black-and-gold bumble bee (Bombus auricomus), Sonoran bumble bee (Bombus sonorus), Digger bee (Anthophora fedorica), Carpenter bee (Xylocopa tabaniformis)
Grows well with
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Calico Aster
Robin's-plantain
Black Huckleberry
Small's Ragwort
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf GoldenrodFacts from the Quercus record for Delphinium tricorne.