Rocky Mountain Columbine is a photograph by Donna Kennedy which was uploaded on April 13th, 2019.
Title
Rocky Mountain Columbine
Artist
Donna Kennedy
Medium
Photograph - Photo Art
Description
Original Fine Art Photography by Donna Kennedy
Edited in Topaz Studio-Photographed in Reno,Nevada…
The Colorado state flower, Rocky Mountain Columbine (Aquilegia caerulea) is planted for its beautiful blue and white flowers. Native to the higher elevations of the intermountain West, is best suited to mountain gardens and areas of the West with cool nights.
It is a herbaceous perennial plant often found at elevations of 6,900 to 12,100 ft. This beautiful plant can grow to 8–24 inches tall, with flowers sprouting in inflorescences produced from the shoot apical meristem. The flowers are very variable in color, from pale blue (as in the species name coerulea) to white, pale yellow and pinkish; very commonly the flowers are bicolored, with the sepals a different shade to the petals. They consist of five petals, five sepals and an ovary surrounded by 50 to 130 stamens. Five long spurs hang below the calyx and contain nectar at their tips, accessible only to hawkmoths. In addition to hawkmoths, pollinators for this flower include bumble-bees, solitary bees and syphrid flies.
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April 13th, 2019
