| Aquilegia formosa Fisch. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Aquilegia canadensis var. formosa (Fisch.) S. Wats. | ||
| Common name | western columbine | ||
| Description | Stems up to 1 meter tall from stout taproot, glabrous below, glandular above, branched; basal leaves bi-ternate, green above, glaucous beneath, glabrous or some- what pubescent; stem leaves reduced; flowers pendant, somewhat pubescent; se- pals and spurs red, spreading; laminae yellow; stamens longer than lamina, glan- dular-pubescent; follicles with divergent styles 10-15 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Moist woods, mountain slopes. Described from Kamchatka, where, however, it does not occur; probably from collections in Sitka. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Large-flowered forms have been called var. megalantha Boiv. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.