Aquilegia is a genus of about 60–70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals of their flowers.
Aquilegia formosa, the crimson columbine, western columbine, or (ambiguously) "red columbine", is a common wildflower native to western North America, from Alaska to Baja California, and eastward to Montana and Wyoming.
Aquilegia canadensis, the Canadian or Canada columbine, eastern red columbine, or wild columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It is an herbaceous perennial native to woodland and rocky slopes in eastern North America, prized for its red and yellow flowers. It readily hybridizes with other species in the genus Aquilegia.
Aquilegia coerulea, the Colorado blue columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to the Rocky Mountains, USA. Aquilegia coerulea is the state flower of Colorado.
Aquilegia vulgaris is a species of columbine native to Europe with common names that include: European columbine, common columbine, granny's nightcap, and granny's bonnet. It is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1.2 m tall, with branched, thinly hairy stems. The leaves are biternate; each leaf has three groups of three leaflets. The flowers, in various shades of purple, blue, pink and white, are pendent or horizontal with strongly hooked spurs, and appear in early summer.
Aquilegia barbaricina is a species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae. It is endemic to Italy, occurring only on the island of Sardinia.
Aquilegia nuragica, commonly called Nuragica columbine, is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae. It is endemic to Italy, on the island of Sardinia.
Aquilegia pubescens is a high-altitude species of columbine known by the common names Sierra columbine, alpine columbine and Coville's columbine. Its flowers are large and usually a creamy white.
Aquilegia saximontana, the Rocky Mountain columbine, alpine dwarf columbine, dwarf blue columbine, or alpine columbine, is a perennial plant that comes from the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae.
Aquilegia pyrenaica, common name Pyrenean columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. It is endemic to the Pyrenees where it grows on grassland and in rocky places. It was first described in 1805 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle who gave it the name Aquilegia pyrenaica.
Aquilegia barnebyi, commonly known as the oil shale columbine or Barneby's columbine, is a perennial species of flowering plant in the buttercup family, with a native range comprising northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado in the United States. It is named after Rupert Charles Barneby, who, with Harry Dwight Dillon Ripley, first discovered it in Colorado.
Aquilegia rockii is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family with a native range comprising the WGSRPD floristic regions of South-Central China and Tibet, where it grows in forests. Plants grow 40–80 cm tall, and produce flowers with purple or blue petals with spurs, which are either long or short. Longer spurs comprise a greater number of cells than shorter spurs; whether spurs are longer or shorter is determined through regulation of cell division rather than by plant growth substances.
Aquilegia atrovinosa is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae. It is native to primarily temperate regions of Central Asia.
Aquilegia bernardii, common name Bernard's columbine, is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to Corsica. It is likely named after the French plant collector Pierre Frédéric Bernard.
Aquilegia buergeriana is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Japan. It has yellow inner petals and dusky purple outer petals and spurs. The specific name honours Thomas J. Buertgers, a plant collector in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland in New Guinea in c.1881.
Aquilegia desertorum, the desert columbine, is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to New Mexico, Arizona, and southwest Utah. It inhabits open rocky limestone areas between 2000m and 2500m altitude.
Aquilegia champagnatii is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Italy. It is endemic to the Monti Picentini in Campania, where it was first identified on the mountain Terminio.
Aquilegia desolaticola, the desolation columbine, is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to Utah. It takes its name from its habitat, the remote Desolation Canyon on the Green River.
Aquilegia dinarica, the Dinaric columbine, is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to the Dinaric Alps of northern Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Montenegro.
Aquilegia einseleana, Einsele's columbine, is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to the central and eastern Alps of Slovenia and small areas of Germany, Austria, and Italy.
