The specific epithet aconitiflorus means "with a flower like Aconitum (monkshood)".
He completed his studies on the pharmacological studies of Aconitum and became a Professor.
Aconitum, also known as aconite, monkshood, wolf's bane, women's bane, Devil's helmet or blue rocket, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the buttercup family
The describer Latreille wrote that he named it because it looks like a monkshood.
However in a tradition that is now over 50 years old, the grounds are opened to enable visitors to view the year's bloom of Snowdrops and, to a lesser extent, Aconites.
Aconitine, a toxin derived from some of the Aconitum genus plants
Aconite produced from the roots of a number of different species of Aconitum is used ethnomedically in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), to treat "coldness", general debility, and "Yang deficiency".
The larvae feed on a wide range of plants, including of Urtica, Chelidonium, Convolvulus, Euphorbia, Rumex, Aconitum, Lilium, Anthriscus, Aster, Rosa, Lonicera xylosteum, Acer and Quercus.