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Aquilegia chaplinei

Chaplin's golden columbine
Stems

20-50 cm.
Basal leaves

2-3x-ternately compound, 7-25 cm, much shorter than stems;

leaflets to 9-19 mm, not viscid, sometimes glaucous adaxially;

primary petiolules to 10-95 mm (leaflets not crowded), glabrous or sparsely pilose.
Flowers

suberect to inclined;

sepals perpendicular to floral axis, pale yellow, broadly lanceolate, 9-19 × 4-6 mm, apex obtuse to acuminate;

petals: spurs yellow, straight, ± parallel or divergent, 30-40 mm, slender, evenly tapered from base, blades pale yellow, oblong, 7-14 × 5-6 mm;

stamens 10-19 mm.
Follicles

18-22 mm;

beak 15-18 mm.

Aquilegia chaplinei
Phenology Flowering summer (Jul–Aug).
Habitat Rocky places in canyons, mostly along streams
Elevation 1900 m (6200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NM; TX
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Aquilegia chaplinei is endemic to the Guadalupe Mountains.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Ranunculaceae > Aquilegia
Sibling taxa
A. barnebyi, A. brevistyla, A. canadensis, A. chrysantha, A. coerulea, A. desertorum, A. elegantula, A. eximia, A. flavescens, A. formosa, A. hinckleyana, A. jonesii, A. laramiensis, A. longissima, A. micrantha, A. pubescens, A. saximontana, A. scopulorum, A. shockleyi, A. vulgaris
Synonyms A. chrysantha var. chaplinei
Name authority Standley ex Payson: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 20: 156-157. (1918)
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