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Aquilegia pubescens

Coville's columbine, Sierra columbine
Stems

20-50 cm.
Basal leaves

1-2x-ternately compound, 8-25 cm, much shorter than stems;

leaflets green adaxially, to 10-25 mm, not viscid;

primary petiolules 12-48 mm (leaflets not crowded), glabrous or sometimes pilose.
Flowers

erect;

sepals perpendicular to floral axis, cream to yellow or pink, lance-oblong to ovate, (15-)20-25 × 5-9 mm, apex obtuse to acuminate;

petals: spurs cream to yellow or pink, straight, ± parallel or divergent, 25-40 mm, slender, evenly tapered from base, blades cream to yellow, oblong, 8-17 × 5-8 mm;

stamens 13-16 mm.
Follicles

20-25 mm;

beak 10-12 mm.
2n

= 14.

Aquilegia pubescens
Phenology Flowering summer (Jun–Aug).
Habitat Open rocky places, alpine or subalpine
Elevation 3000-4000 m (9800-13100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Aquilegia pubescens is endemic to the southern Sierra Nevada. It sometimes forms extensive hybrid swarms with A. formosa.

(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. laramiensis, A. longissima, A. micrantha, A. saximontana, A. scopulorum, A. shockleyi, A. vulgaris
Name authority Coville: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 4: 56-57, plate 1. (1893)
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