Dispator (and others who are interested)...
Imagine if you could change monkshood so it has a better resemblance to the VMS plant...
Imagine making it a bit squatter.
Imagine making the head less of a tall stalk and more of a short stalk with just a few flowers coming from the top rather than a lot of them growing for some distance up the stalk.
Imagine giving it a name like dragon's-head that might account for the evocative shape of the leaves.
There is such a plant. It's called Dracocephalum grandiflorum or D. altaiense (it originated in west and central Asia). The common name is betony-leaved dragon's-head.
In other words, it looks a bit like monkshood at first glance but being squatter and more sparsely flowered, it is closer in proportions to plant f3v.
Imagine if you could change monkshood so it has a better resemblance to the VMS plant...
Imagine making it a bit squatter.
Imagine making the head less of a tall stalk and more of a short stalk with just a few flowers coming from the top rather than a lot of them growing for some distance up the stalk.
Imagine giving it a name like dragon's-head that might account for the evocative shape of the leaves.
There is such a plant. It's called Dracocephalum grandiflorum or D. altaiense (it originated in west and central Asia). The common name is betony-leaved dragon's-head.
In other words, it looks a bit like monkshood at first glance but being squatter and more sparsely flowered, it is closer in proportions to plant f3v.