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Aquilegia Chrysantha, Golden Columbine


Plants > Wildflowers > Ranunculaceae > Aquilegia Chrysantha
Golden Columbine; Flower head of aquilegia chrysantha, at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona
Flower head of aquilegia chrysantha, at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona
Common name:
Golden columbine
Family:
Buttercup (Ranunculaceae)
Scientific name:
Aquilegia chrysantha
Main flower color:
Yellow
Range:
Arizona, far south Utah, and small areas of Colorado, New Mexico and west Texas
Height:
Between 1 and 4 feet
Habitat:
Moist locations; streambanks, springs, boggy meadows, 3,000 to 11,000 feet
Leaves:
Fully divided into 3 leaflets, each partly divided once or twice more, to small rounded lobes
Season:
April to September
Pintrest
The all-yellow flowers of aquilegia chrysantha are large and showy, formed of five pointed, lance-shaped sepals beneath five rounded petals, hollow at the base, curving down into a narrow, backwards-projecting spur up to 2.5 inches long. Spurs can be parallel to each other or curve away from the axis. Sepals may be paler in color than the petals, sometimes almost white. At the flower center are several dozen stamens and five styles, forming a dense cluster. Flowers grow on long stalks, well away from the central stem. Leaves are large, up to 10 inches in length, divided 2 or 3 times into rounded leaflets. Plants branch freely and can produce dozens of flowers.

This species is found over a wide range of elevation, but a relatively small geographical area, centred on Arizona, from the northwest to the southeast.




Large yellow flower
Large yellow flower
Golden Columbine
Petals and sepals
Long stamens
Long stamens
Lobed leaves
Lobed leaves
Flower and leaves
Flower and leaves
All-yellow flower
All-yellow flower
Long yellow spurs
Long yellow spurs
Exserted stamens
Exserted stamens
Yellow and white flower
Yellow and white flower
Two flowers
Two flowers
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