helmet flower


Meanings

  • a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite
  • a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised
  • any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process