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.”

  The Bread of Ruth’s Unhappiness « A Fly in Amber

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Different Light

• “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.”

  Hereric of Deira

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Ark

• “It was a flower, the blossom of the monkshood plant.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Ark

• “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).”

  Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)

• “Dame's rocket, sweet William, monkshood, and meadow rue -- the old-fashioned names are so much prettier.”

  Remembering Tasha Tudor...

• “Outside, the spikes of monkshood and delphinium stood erect and motionless against the shadow of the hillside.”

  When the Sleeper Wakes

• “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.”

  When the Sleeper Wakes

• “Ah, my sorrowful, his cloister dreeping of his monkshood, how it is triste to death, all his dark ivytod!”

  Finnegans Wake

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