AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS

Scientific Name: Aquilegia canadensis L.

Common Name: Columbine

Family: RANUNCULACEAE

Herbaceous perennials from a short, stout rootstock or caudex. Leaves basal and cauline, 2-3 ternately compound, reduced upward, alternate, petiolate and petiolulate. Inflorescence open, paniculate, bracteate. Sepals 5, regular; petals 5, spurred; s tamens numerous, filaments dilated, inner staminodia scarious, dilated; carpels 5, stigmas linear, styles elongate, ovaries many-ovulate. Follicles 5, erect, appearing capsular. Plant to 8 dm tall, stems pubescent to glabrate, roots thick, fascicled. Leaflets glabrous above, glaucous beneath, to 5 cm long and wide, obtuse, lobed, base cuneate or rounded; petioles and petiolules pubescent to glabrate, elongate. Perianth red a nd yellow; sepals short-clawed, blade ovate, 10-16 mm long; petals 5, blade 5-10 mm long, spur 15-25 mm long; stamens exserted, forming a column. Follicles usually pubescent, ellipsoid, 15-25 mm long, 3-4 mm broad, styles persistent, elongate; seeds lustrous, black, obovoid, angled, 1.5-1.8 mm long. 1 mm broad. (n=7) March-May. Rich, rocky woods, pastures and waste places throughout N.C., n. S.C. [Va., Ga., Fla., Ala., Tenn., Ky., W.Va.]


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