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 39 of Virginia’s 133 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
- 12 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
Bluestem Goldenrod
New Jersey Tea
Calico Aster
Small's Ragwort
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Black Huckleberry
Heartleaf AsterFacts from the Quercus record for Delphinium tricorne.