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Aquilegia laramiensis

Laramie columbine
Stems

5-25 cm.
Basal leaves

1-2x-ternately compound, 5-25 cm, about as long as stems;

leaflets green adaxially, to 9-27 mm, not viscid;

primary petiolules 17-35 mm (leaflets not crowded), glabrous.
Flowers

nodding;

sepals divergent from floral axis, greenish white, linear or lanceolate, 7-15 × 1-4 mm, apex acute to rounded;

petals: spurs white, hooked, 5-8 mm, stout, evenly tapered from base, blades cream colored, oblong to elliptic, 5-12 × 3-7 mm;

stamens 10-11 mm.
Follicles

10-14 mm;

beak 3-5 mm.
2n

= 14.

Aquilegia laramiensis
Phenology Flowering summer (Jun–Jul).
Habitat Rock crevices
Elevation 2000-2500 m (6600-8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
WY
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Aquilegia laramiensis is endemic to the Laramie Mountains.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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. elegantula, A. eximia, A. flavescens, A. formosa, A. hinckleyana, A. jonesii, A. longissima, A. micrantha, A. pubescens, A. saximontana, A. scopulorum, A. shockleyi, A. vulgaris
Name authority A. Nelson: Wyoming Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull. 28: 78-79. (1896)
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