Aquilegia elegantula |
Aquilegia micrantha |
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shooting-star columbine, western red columbine |
alcove columbine, Mancos columbine |
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Stems | 10-60 cm. |
30-60 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. |
2-3x-ternately compound, 10-35 cm, much shorter than stems; leaflets green adaxially, to 13-32 mm, viscid; primary petiolules 21-64 mm (leaflets not crowded), glandular-pubescent or glandular. |
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. |
erect or nodding; sepals perpendicular to floral axis, white, cream, blue, or pink, oblong-lanceolate, 8-20 × 3-6 mm, apex acuminate to obtuse; petals: spurs white or colored like sepals, straight, ± parallel or divergent, 15-30 mm, slender, evenly tapered from base or occasionally ± abruptly narrowed near middle, blades white or cream, oblong, 6-10 × 3-7 mm; stamens 9-14 mm. |
Follicles | 13-20 mm; beak 13-15 mm. |
10-20 mm; beak 8-10 mm. |
Aquilegia elegantula |
Aquilegia micrantha |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer (May–Jul). | Flowering spring–summer (Apr–Sep). |
Habitat | Moist coniferous forests, especially along streams | Seepy rock walls of canyons |
Elevation | 1500-3500 m (4900-11500 ft) | 1000-2500 m (3300-8200 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; UT; n Mexico
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AZ; CO; UT
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Aquilegia | Ranunculaceae > Aquilegia |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | A. flavescens var. rubicunda, A. micrantha var. mancosana | |
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 4: 14-15. (1899) | Eastwood: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 4: 559-560, plate 19. (1895) |
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