bee-larkspur

Updated: May 23, 2025

Bees are not without their contingent of names; a popular name of the Delphinium grandiflorum being the bee-larkspur, "from the resemblance of the petals, which are studded with yellow hairs, to the humble-bee whose head is buried in the recesses of the flower."

T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer - The Folk-lore of Plants