Plant identification - Delphinium ?

[eww]

[Maggi Young]

Welcome eww!
 I wonder of this unusually coloured  plant is a form of either Delphinium hesperium subsp. pallescens  or D. tricorne?

[David Nicholson]

Height and leaf form would both be useful

[Gabriela]

As David mentioned, without leaf and a bit more details of flower would be just anyones guess about the species (if not hybrid).

It is not tricorne, but it could also match flower-wise the NA Delphinium leucophaeum.

[eww]

Many thanks for suggestions to date

Attached, Delphinium? in earlier life

EMW

[Ed Alverson]

While Delphinium leucophaeum has similar flower coloration, its inflorescences are very tall and narrow, not so wide and congested as in the photo. It also flowers fairly late, mid to late June in its natural habitat.

Ed

[Gabriela]

Never saw D. leucophaeum in the wild and the reason I know about it is that I got some seeds one year (I should have a seedlings somewhere...).

Regarding the flowers/time, many times when cultivated in the garden species become a bit more floriferous, and eww is from NZ as I see.

Anyway, I am not saying the plant shown is leucophaeum, especially that they hybridize easy. But is nice to talk about it being such a beautiful and distinct species, plus endangered in the wild habitat.
Link from the Oregon Flora Image Project
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/ofp/del_leu.htm

[Maggi Young]

I note that one of the photos shown in the link Gabriela gives  does have a much fuller  spire of flowers  than many of the others. Perhaps the species  can be variable enough to produce flower spikes  as shown in eww's photo?
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/ofp/images2/del_leu_4666b.jpg