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Aquilegia flavescens

Aquilegia

yellow columbine

Columbine
Habit Glandular, glabrous to densely pubescent perennial from a branched to simple woody base, the several stems 2-7.5 dm. tall.
Leaves

Leaves mostly basal, long-petiolate, the blades triternate;

leaflets thin, obovate with a wedge-shaped base, 2-3 times lobed, glaucous and pubescent beneath, 1.5-5.5 cm. long.

Flowers

Flowers usually several, nodding;

sepals 5, petal-like, yellow, oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long;

petals 5, yellow, with slender, incurved spurs 10-15 mm. long, the blades 6-13 mm. long;

stamens numerous, the inner ones sterile and scale-like.

Fruits

Follicles usually 5, glandular-pubescent, 2 cm. long, the tips spreading.

Aquilegia flavescens

Aquilegia
Flowering time June-August
Habitat Moist mountain meadows and talus to alpine slopes
Distribution
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to Oregon, east to the Rocky Mountains.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
Sibling taxa
A. flavescens × A. formosa var. formosa, A. formosa, A. vulgaris
Subordinate taxa
A. flavescens, A. flavescens × A. formosa var. formosa, A. formosa, A. vulgaris
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