Aquilegia alpina

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Aquilegia alpina
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Aquilegia
Species:
A. alpina
Binomial name
Aquilegia alpina
Synonyms [2]
  • Aquilegia alpina f. gracilisChenevard & Braun-Blanq.
  • Aquilegia alpina var. minorRouy & Foucaud
  • Aquilegia montanaSternb.
  • Aquilegia reuterianaRchb. ex Nyman
  • Aquilegia vulgaris subsp. alpina(L.) Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Aquilegia vulgaris var. typicaBrühl

Aquilegia alpina, the alpine columbine or breath of God, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the Alps, [2] [3] where it is typically found growing on carbonate bedrock. [4]

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References

  1. Sp. Pl.: 522 (1753)
  2. 1 2 "Aquilegia alpina L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. "Aquilegia alpina alpine columbine". The Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 1 January 2021. Other common names; breath of God
  4. Caironi, Valeria; Crosa Lenz, Beatrice; Bollati, Iren Maria (2020). "A multidisciplinary approach for physical landscape analysis: Scientific value and risk of degradation of outstanding landforms in the glacial plateau of the Loana Valley (Central-Western Italian Alps)". Italian Journal of Geosciences. 139 (2): 233–251. doi:10.3301/IJG.2020.01. S2CID   216271412.