Flora of North America species comparison

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Aquilegia micrantha

alcove columbine, Mancos columbine
Stems

30-60 cm.
Basal leaves

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

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

10-20 mm;

beak 8-10 mm.

Aquilegia micrantha
Phenology Flowering spring–summer (Apr–Sep).
Habitat Seepy rock walls of canyons
Elevation 1000-2500 m (3300-8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; UT
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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. laramiensis, A. longissima, A. pubescens, A. saximontana, A. scopulorum, A. shockleyi, A. vulgaris
Synonyms A. flavescens var. rubicunda, A. micrantha var. mancosana
Name authority Eastwood: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 4: 559-560, plate 19. (1895)
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