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Monkshoods
Every rated Aconitum record is fire-resistant — 1 of 3 records, including the genus rated as a group; none is condemned. These counts describe the cited records — 3 records carrying 9 evidence rows from 7 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Monkshood Aconitum spp. Fire-resistant Limited evidence 4 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Awaiting evidence
2 species
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Columbian monkshood Awaiting evidence Aconitum columbianum - Monkshood, Columbian or Venus' chariot Awaiting evidence Aconitum napellus
About monkshoods
Corpus context. Aconitum is the directory's #247 largest of 550 genus groups: 3 records carrying 9 evidence rows from 7 cited sources, recorded as perennial , hardy across USDA zones 3–7. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Aconitum: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.