Flora of North America species comparison

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Aquilegia elegantula

shooting-star columbine, western red columbine
Stems

10-60 cm.
Basal leaves

2x-ternately compound, 15-30 cm, usually shorter than stems;

leaflets green adaxially, to 11-33 mm, not viscid;

primary petiolules 17-58 mm (leaflets not crowded), glabrous or pilose.
Flowers

pendent;

sepals erect, red proximally, yellow-green distally, elliptic-ovate, 7-11 × 4-5 mm, apex rounded to acute;

petals: spurs red, straight, ± parallel, 16-23 mm, stout (at least proximally), abruptly narrowed near middle, blades yellow-green, oblong or rounded, 6-8 × 3-4 mm;

stamens 8-14 mm.
Follicles

13-20 mm;

beak 13-15 mm.

Aquilegia elegantula
Phenology Flowering spring–summer (May–Jul).
Habitat Moist coniferous forests, especially along streams
Elevation 1500-3500 m (4900-11500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; UT; n Mexico
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Source FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Ranunculaceae > Aquilegia
Sibling taxa
A. barnebyi, A. brevistyla, A. canadensis, A. chaplinei, A. chrysantha, A. coerulea, A. desertorum, 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
Name authority Greene: Pittonia 4: 14-15. (1899)
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