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Aquilegia coerulea, the Colorado columbine, Rocky Mountain columbine, or blue columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to the Rocky Mountains and some of the surrounding states of the western United States. It is the state flower of Colorado. The Latin specific name coerulea (or caerulea) means ...
Aquilegia chrysantha A.Gray – golden columbine; Aquilegia coerulea E.James – Colorado blue columbine; Aquilegia colchica Kem.-Nath. Aquilegia confusa Rota; Aquilegia cossoniana (Maire & Sennen) Rivas Mart. Aquilegia × cottia Beyer; Aquilegia cremnophila Bacch., Brullo, Congiu, Fenu, J.L.Garrido & Mattana; Aquilegia cymosa Qureshi & Chaudhri
Blue columbine may refer to: Aquilegia coerulea (more often) Aquilegia brevistyla (infrequently) This page was last edited on 19 July 2024, at 03:01 (UTC). ...
The Mancos columbine grows to 30–60cm in height with white, cream, blue, or pink sepals, 8 to 20 mm in length. The blades are white or cream and 6 to 10 mm long. The spurs are white or colored like the sepals, 15 to 30 mm long, and straight with the tips of the spurs curving inward. The stamens extend beyond the blades. [3]
Colorado State Highway 5, the Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway, ascends to 14,160 feet (4,316 m) elevation near the summit of Mount Blue Sky. The summit of Grays Peak at 14,278 feet (4,352 m) elevation is the highest point on the Continental Divide of North America .
Aquilegia desertorum is very close to Aquilegia canadensis and may not be truly distinct at species level. Plants from the eastern and southern parts of its range have sometimes been considered a distinct species, Aquilegia triternata, largely based on their longer sepals and petal blades, but in central Arizona the two varieties become hard to distinguish, [5] and A. triternata is therefore ...
Aquilegia alpina, often called the alpine columbine or breath of God, [5] is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the western and central Alps. [4] Though rare in its Swiss, Austrian, and Italian range, it is commonly found in the French Maritime Alps .
Colorado Blue Columbine (Aquilegia coerulea) E.James During the expedition, James accomplished the first recorded mountain ascent in North America to over 14,000 ft. elevation, and was the first to collect many alpine plant species, including what he called "the mountain Columbine" Aquilegia coerulea , [ 2 ] later to become the state flower of ...