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shooting-star columbine, western red columbine

alcove columbine, Mancos columbine

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

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
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; UT; n Mexico
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from FNA
AZ; CO; UT
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Source FNA vol. 3. FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Ranunculaceae > Aquilegia 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
A. barnebyi, A. brevistyla, A. canadensis, A. chaplinei, A. chrysantha, A. coerulea, A. desertorum, A. elegantula, A. eximia, A. flavescens, A. formosa, A. hinckleyana, A. jonesii, A. laramiensis, A. longissima, A. pubescens, A. saximontana, A. scopulorum, A. shockleyi, A. vulgaris
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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