Ranunculaceae
Yellow monkshood
Aconitum anthora
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- Genus
- Aconitum
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Common names
By language (17)
- Arabic
- انتله سوداء, طواراه
- arz
- البيش انثورا
- Catalan
- Tora groga
- Chinese
- 拟黄花乌头, 擬黃花烏頭, 两色乌头, 新疆乌头
- Croatian
- Žutičasti jedić
- Czech
- Oměj jedhoj
- English
- Yellow monkshood
- French
- Aconit anthore, Aconit vénéneux, Anthore, Maclou
- German
- Gift-Eisenhut
- Hungarian
- Méregölő sisakvirág
- Icelandic
- Sólhjálmur
- Kazakh
- Дәрі мәрпі
- Polish
- Tojad południowy
- Romanian
- Omag galben
- Russian
- Борец противоядный
- Slovenian
- Primorska preobjeda
- Ukrainian
- Аконіт дібровний, Тоя кущиста, Аконіт кущистий
Synonyms
- Aconitum anthora f. collinum Schur
- Aconitum anthora f. jacquinii Rchb.
- Aconitum anthora subsp. confertiflorum (DC.) Vorosch.
- Aconitum anthora subsp. nemorosum (Bieb. ex Reichenb.) Vorosch.
- Aconitum anthora var. anthoroideum (DC.) Regel
- Aconitum anthora var. confertiflorum DC.
- Aconitum anthora var. patulum Rouy & Foucaud
- Aconitum anthora var. velutinum Rchb.
- Aconitum anthora var. versicolor Steven ex Ser.
- Aconitum anthoroideum DC.
- Aconitum anthorum St.-Lag.
- Aconitum candollei Rchb. ex Steud.
- Aconitum coeruleum Blocki
- Aconitum confertiflorum (DC.) Gáyer
- Aconitum confertiflorum var. armenum Vorosch.
- Aconitum confertiflorum var. armenum Vorosch. ex Luferov
- Aconitum confertiflorum var. pumilum Kem.-Nath.
- Aconitum confertiflorum var. versicolor (Steven ex Ser.) Luferov
- Aconitum decandollei Rchb.
- Aconitum eulophum Rchb.
- Aconitum inclinatum Sweet
- Aconitum jacquinii Rchb.
- Aconitum nemorosum M.Bieb. ex Rchb.
- Aconitum nemorosum Bieb. ex Reichenb.
- Aconitum ochroleucum Salisb.
- Aconitum pallasii Rchb.
- Aconitum pseudanthora Wender.
- Aconitum pseudanthora Blocki ex Pacz.
- Aconitum pyrenaicum Pall.
- Aconitum tuberosum Patr. ex Rchb.
- Aconitum versicolor Ster. ex Ledeb.
- Anthora saxatilis Fourr.
- Anthora versicolor Steven ex Ser.
- Delphinium anthora (L.) Baill.
Flowers
- In flower
- August to September (from 218 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos

FlowerPhoto: Fyodor Pudovikov, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: xulescu_g, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Полина Полежанкина, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist Photo: Enrico Blasutto, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Vysochyn Maksym, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: luluchouette, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Liné1, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: wL, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: open_a_ir, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Liné1, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Berkes Tomi, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.