Do Not Touch! Monkshood, aka Wolfsbane, is lethal. There is NO antidote. Roots, plant, seeds, sap, and flower are all poisonous to animals and humans. 2mg can be fatal in 2 to 6 hours.

The Aleutes of the Alaskan Aleutian Islands used aconitum poisoned spears to paralize whales which would cause them to drown.

It has infrequently been suspected that aconitum was used instead of hemlock to execute Socrates.