Northern Monkshood (Aconitum noveboracense)

Synonym:

Status: threatened in Wisconsin; threatened in U.S.

Habitat Description: ledges and bases of shady moist cliffs, often in cold air drainage pockets

Habitat Classification
WI NHI: Algific Talus Slope
Curtis: Shaded Wet Cliff, Algific Talus Slope
Kotar: NA
Forest Cover: Hemlock/White Pine/Yellow Birch; Paper Birch

Range: Grant, Monroe, Richland, Sauk, and Vernon

Comments:

Phenology: flowers from mid-June to late September with a peak in August

Field Guides:
Britton and Brown, p.2:164/p.2:165
Gleason 1963, p.308
Gleason 1991, p.50
Newcomb, p.68

3l - Kuchenreuther, M., W. Smith, R. Cervelli and F. Stearns. l986
Management of northern monkshood in Wisconsin l02 pp.

WI State Herbarium:species details