helmetflower

Noun

• a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite

• any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process

• a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  monkshood , helmet flower , Aconitum napellus , helmet orchid , skullcap