What is this plant please

[PattyDuke]

The tall dark blue flower that came with a bunch of flowers. I would love to grow it myself next year. Thank you

Oops - photo has not quite come out as I hoped!

I think it might be larkspur

Looks like a delphinium (that’s not fully opened) to me

www.flowerglossary.com/blue-flowers/

Looks most like a delphinium to me based on the images on this link. It's a lovely flower.

Could be Delphinium or Larkspur. They’re closely related and the flowers are very similar. Larkspur has finer foliage.

if it’s the colour that attracts you, look at Anchusa azurea. Deserves to be known better than it is

I thought Delphinium at first but the Seek app says it's Larkspur.

Thank you !

I hope it isnt aconite or monkshood, which would be deathly. More likely to be larkspur, hopefully.

I'd also have been in the delphinium camp, based on the ones in our garden. Looks lovely though whatever it is!

You don’t have to believe everything it says. There isn’t enough info in the pic to tell the difference

Baptisia, I think, on the basis of a picture I saw today on a Cutting Garden group I'm on. Had never heard of it, and now (I think) it's come up twice in one day!

Baptisia

Definitely delphinium. Here’s a picture of my blue larkspur in the garden

@Whitney168 that's it! - thankyou.

How funny to have it come up twice from nowhere. Maybe it's 'the' cut flower of 2022!

It’s not Baptisia, which is a legume, but definitely Delphinium or Larkspur.

Delphinium

This is definitely Baptisia, grown by the arranger - looks the same to me?

According to my plant app it is a Candle Larkspur. Picture attached. Apparently it's toxic to pets and people.

If you look closely, it isn’t the same. Baptisia has typical leguminous flowers, while the OP’s photo shows typical Delphinium/Larkspur flowers - the clue is the little spur at the back of each bud.

Thank you everyone. Thank you @Whitney168 It is Baptisia - I located some at our local nursery yesterday afternoon (yes I am that keen).

@PattyDuke There’s something wrong there! Either the one at the nursery is different from yours, or the one at the nursery is wrongly named.

Baptisia, as you can see in @Whitney168’s picture, has flowers like a blue sweet pea. Your picture shows flowers which are not sweetpea like, and which have a long spur at the back. Flowers are where all the sex and therefore inheritance happens, the shape of the flower influences what insect can pollinate it therefore what other pollen it is introduced to, in other words, it is pretty key to identity.

You should heed @NanTheWiser - she knows her stuff!

@MereDintofPandiculation Thank you!

Monty put in some baptisia Australia last year, so it's due some recognition. I tried to grow from seed, but it all failed.

This flower, however, is definitely not baptisia, as nan and mere say, baptisia doesn't have those spurs.

I have given up on delphiniums as the slugs were uncontrollable with them, but they are so so pretty!

Definitely see what you mean about the spur, thank you.

(All pretty though, so hopefully your Baptisia will do you well, OP!)