Aquilegia flavescens |
Aquilegia scopulorum |
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yellow columbine |
rock columbine, Utah columbine |
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Stems | 20-70 cm. |
5-30 cm. |
Basal leaves | 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. |
2x-ternately compound, 3-12 cm, much shorter than stems; leaflets to 5-14 mm, not viscid, glaucous on both sides; primary petiolules 3-15 mm (leaflets densely crowded), glabrous or pilose. |
Flowers | 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. |
erect; sepals perpendicular to floral axis, blue to white or sometimes reddish purple, ovate-oblong, 13-22 × 4-10 mm, apex obtuse or broadly acute; petals: spurs blue to white or reddish purple, straight, ± parallel, 25-40 mm, slender, evenly tapered from base, blades white, yellow, blue, or reddish purple, oblong or spatulate, 8-14 × 4-7 mm; stamens 11-15 mm. |
Follicles | 18-27 mm; beak 8-10 mm. |
10-18 mm; beak 8-11 mm. |
Aquilegia flavescens |
Aquilegia scopulorum |
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Phenology | Flowering summer (Jun–Aug). | Flowering summer (Jun–Aug). |
Habitat | Moist mountain meadows and alpine slopes | Rocky slopes, woodlands, or meadows |
Elevation | 1300-3500 m (4300-11500 ft) | 2000-3500 m (6600-11500 ft) |
Distribution |
ID; MT; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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NV; UT
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Discussion | 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.) |
Populations intermediate between Aquilegia scopulorum and A. coerulea are known from Utah. Aquilegia scopulorum has also been reported from southern Wyoming; the record is doubtful. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Aquilegia | Ranunculaceae > Aquilegia |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | A. flavescens var. miniana | A. scopulorum var. calcarea |
Name authority | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 10. (1871) | Tidestrom: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 1: 167, plate 11. (1910) |
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