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Aquilegia chrysantha (golden columbine)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Aquilegia chrysantha, the golden columbine, is a perennial herbaceous plant native to the southwestern United States from extreme southern Utah to Texas and northwestern Mexico. Leaves have three leaflets with three lobes and grow from the base and off the flowering stems. Flowers grow on a long stem above the leaves and have five pointed yellow sepals and five yellow petals with long spurs projecting backwards between the sepals. At the center of the flower are many yellow stamens.
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Infraspecies

Aquilegia chrysantha var. chaplinei (Chaplin's golden columbine) (Vulnerable)
Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana (Hinckley's golden columbine)
Aquilegia chrysantha var. rydbergii (Rydberg's golden columbine)

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States
Grand Canyon National Park II 1210128 Arizona, United States
Zion National Park II 135667 Utah, United States

Predators

Lacanobia contigua (Beautiful Brocade)[4]

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0