Aquilegia formosa

Aquilegia formosa var. truncata (Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) Baker:
United States (North America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

Aquilegia formosa fo. anomala J.T. Howell:
United States (North America)

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Aquilegia formosa var. truncata (Fisch. & C.A. Mey.) M.E. Jones:
United States (North America)

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Aquilegia formosa var. pauciflora (Greene) Payson:
United States (North America)

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Aquilegia formosa Fisch. ex DC.:
China (Asia)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
United States (North America)

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Calif., Nev.

Canada

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

United States

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Global Range: From coastal Alaska and southern Yukon, through to Baja Calif. and Utah.

Stems 40-100 cm. Basal leaves 2-3×-ternately compound, 9-45 cm, much shorter than stems; leaflets to 11-38 mm, sometimes viscid, glaucous on both surfaces; primary petiolules 23-80 mm (leaflets not crowded), glabrous or pilose. Flowers nodding; sepals perpendicular to floral axis, red (or sometimes partly yellow or green), lanceolate to elliptic, 10-20 × 4-8 mm, apex acuminate or acute; petals: spurs red or pink, straight, ± parallel, 12-25(-30) mm, rather stout, usually abruptly narrowed near middle, blades yellow, oblong or rounded, 2-5 × 4-7 mm; stamens 12-16 mm. Follicles 14-25 mm; beak 9-12 mm.

Stems (15-)30-100 cm. Basal leaves 2×-ternately compound, 10-40 cm, much shorter than stems; leaflets green adaxially, to 14-68 mm, not viscid (petioles and petiolules viscid in var. hypolasia ); primary petiolules 16-95 mm (leaflets not crowded), glabrous or pilose. Flowers nodding to pendent; sepals perpendicular to floral axis, red, elliptic to lanceolate, 10-26 × 4-9 mm, apex broadly acute to acuminate; petals: spurs red, straight, ± parallel, 13-21 mm, stout, abruptly narrowed near middle, blades yellow, oblong, rounded, or obsolete, 0-6 × 4-6 mm; stamens 12-17 mm. Follicles 15-25(-29) mm; beak 9-12 mm.

Aquilegia formosa Fischer ex de Candolle var. caelifax (Payson) Munz; A. mohavensis Munz

This species could be confused with reddish flowered forms of A. FLAVESCENS; however, the A. FLAVESCENS has spurs with incurved tips and petal blades which are 6-13 mm long.

Moist places in dry woodlands and shrublands; 1200-2700m.

Comments: Open woods and rocky slopes, moist areas.

Flowering spring-summer (Apr-Aug).

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 3
Specimens with Barcodes: 9
Species With Barcodes: 1

Canada

Rounded National Status Rank: N5 - Secure

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure

Reasons: Wide range, common within range.