Aquilegia coerulea

Aquilegia coerulea, Arapaho Pass trail, Boulder County, Colorado, USA

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ranunculales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Ordo: Ranunculales

Familia: Ranunculaceae
Subfamilia: Thalictroideae
Genus: Aquilegia
Species: Aquilegia coerulea
Varietates: A. c. var. alpina – A. c. var. coerulea – A. c. var. ochroleuca – A. c. var. pinetorum

Name

Aquilegia coerulea E.James, Account Exped. Pittsburgh, ed. Philadelphia, 2: 15 (1822).

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Aquilegia canadensis subsp. coerulea (E.James) Brühl, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 61: 319 (1893).
• Heterotypic
  • Aquilegia macrantha Hook. & Arn., Bot. Beechey Voy.: 317 (1838).
  • Aquilegia advena Regel,Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1856: 32 (1856).
  • Aquilegia coerulea f. glandulosa Cockerell, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 18: 168 (1891).
  • Aquilegia formosa var. macrantha (Hook. & Arn.) Brühl, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 61: 320 (1893).
  • Aquilegia coerulea var. daileyae Eastw., Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 3, 1: 76 (1897).
  • Aquilegia oreophila Rydb., Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 29: 146 (1902).
  • Aquilegia coerulea var. leptocera (Nutt.) A.Nelson, Man. Bot. Rocky Mt., ed. 2: 191 (1909).
  • Aquilegia coerulea var. macrantha (Hook. & Arn.) Rapaics, Bot. Közlem. 8: 136 (1909).
  • Aquilegia coerulea subsp. albiflora (A.Gray) A.Gray ex Payson, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 20: 152 (1918).
  • Aquilegia coerulea subsp. daileyae (Eastw.) Payson, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 20: 153 (1918).
  • Aquilegia piersoniana L.O.Williams, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 21: 344 (1934).

References

Additional references

• Govaerts, R.H.A. 1995. World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2). 483, 529 pp. MIM, Deurne. ISBN 90-341-0852-X (issue 1) ISBN 90-341-0853-8 (issue 2). Reference page. 
• Whittemore, A.T. 1997. Aquilegia. Pp. 253 in Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.), Flora of North America North of Mexico. Volume 3: Magnoliophyta: Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae. 590 pp. Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford, ISBN 0-19-511246-6. efloras FNA Website Internet Archive, Lending Library Reference page. 
• Allred, K. W. 2012. Flora Neomexicana. The vascular plants of New Mexico. Vol. 1: An annotated checklist to the names of vascular plants, with synonymy and bibliography. Ed. 2. 613 pp. Range Science Herbarium, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Reference page. 
• Ackerfield, J. 2015. Flora of Colorado. 818 pp. BRIT Press, Fort Worth, Tx. ISBN 978-1-889878-45-4. Reference page. 

Links

• Hassler, M. 2020. Aquilegia coerulea. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2020 March 27. Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Aquilegia coerulea in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 March 27. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2020. Aquilegia coerulea. Published online. Accessed: 27 March 2020.

Vernacular names

azərbaycanca: Mavi akvilegiya
English: Colorado Blue Columbine
français: Ancolie bleue à fleurs précoces
polski: Orlik niebieski
русский: Водосбор голубой
svenska: Coloradoakleja

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