Aquilegia flavescens
Aquilegia chaplinei
yellow columbine
Chaplin's golden columbine
20-70 cm.
20-50 cm.
2x-ternately compound, 8-30 cm, much shorter than stems;
leaflets green adaxially, to 14-42 mm, not viscid;
primary petiolules to 13-67 mm (leaflets not crowded), glabrous or pilose.
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.
nodding;
sepals perpendicular to floral axis, yellow or tinged with pink, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong, 12-22 × 4-10 mm, apex obtuse to acute or sometimes acuminate;
petals: spurs yellow, tips incurved, 10-18 mm, stout, evenly tapered from base or more abruptly narrowed near middle, blades cream colored, oblong, 7-10 × 4-8 mm;
stamens 12-17 mm.
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.
18-27 mm;
beak 8-10 mm.
18-22 mm;
beak 15-18 mm.
Aquilegia flavescens
Aquilegia chaplinei
Aquilegia flavescens sometimes forms hybrid swarms with A. formosa var. formosa, which grows at lower elevations through much of its range. Intermediate specimens having pinkish red flowers and petal blades 5-6 mm are occasionally found where these species grow together. The name A. flavescens var. miniana has sometimes been mistakenly applied to these intermediates, but the type of var. miniana is a typical, pink-sepaled plant of A. flavescens.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Of conservation concern.
Aquilegia chaplinei is endemic to the Guadalupe Mountains.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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