Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae > Aquilegia > Aquilegia coerulea

Aquilegia coerulea (Colorado blue columbine)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona. Its common name is Colorado Blue Columbine; sometimes it is called "Rocky Mountain Columbine", but this properly refers to Aquilegia saximontana. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 20–60 cm tall. The flowers are very variable in color, from pale blue (as in the species name caerulea) to white, pale yellow and pinkish; very commonly the flowers are bicolored, with the sepals a different shade to the petals. There are five varieties:
View Wikipedia Record: Aquilegia coerulea

Infraspecies

Aquilegia coerulea var. alpina (Colorado alpine columbine)
Aquilegia coerulea var. coerulea (Colorado blue columbine)
Aquilegia coerulea var. daileyae (Dailey's columbine)
Aquilegia coerulea var. ochroleuca (White Colorado columbine)
Aquilegia coerulea var. pinetorum (Colorado blue columbine)

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  Although no records of toxicity have been seen for this species, it belongs to a family that contains a number of mildly toxic species. It is therefore wise to exercise some caution. The flowers are probably perfectly safe to eat.
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [2]  The seed is used as a parasiticide to rid the hair of lice;
Height [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Aquilegia coerulea

Protected Areas

Emblem of

Colorado

Providers

Pollinated by 
Anthophora terminalis[4]
Bombus huntii (Hunt Bumble Bee)[5]
Bombus insularis (Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee)[5]
Bombus occidentalis (Western Bumble Bee)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Clements, R. E., and F. L. Long. 1923, Experimental pollination. An outline of the ecology of flowers and insects. Washington, D.C., USA, Carnegie Institute of Washington.
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