Paintbrush spires

These stately spikes of blue Aconitum (also known as aconite or wolfsbane) sway with the November breeze against fall's backdrop of rust and gold.
Alway's a little ragged, we love them anyway, because they are the last splash of color in our garden before winter sets in.
Wolfsbane in the Harry Potter series of fantasy novels is a plant that can be used as an ingredient in the Wolfsbane potion, a potion werewolves use to maintain their rationality and conscience when transformed into a wolf. Additionally Severus Snape lectures Harry Potter when they first meet t "As for monkshood and wolfsbane, they are the same plant, which also goes by the name of aconite."