Aquilegia laramiensis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Ranunculales
- Family
- Ranunculaceae
- Genus
- Aquilegia
- Species
- Aquilegia laramiensis
- Scientific Name
- Aquilegia laramiensis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Aquilegia laramiensis
Aquilegia laramiensis is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name Laramie columbine. It is endemic to Wyoming in the United States, where it is known only from the Laramie Mountains.
This rhizomatous perennial herb produces stems up to 25 centimeters long. The leaves are compound, divided into leaflets. The nodding flowers have greenish white or lavender sepals up to 1.5 centimeters in length. The cream-colored to lavender petals are up to 1.2 centimeters long and have thick, hooked spurs. The fruit is a follicle up to 1.4 centimeters long.
This plant is limited to one mountain range in Albany and Converse Counties in Wyoming. Many occurrences are within Medicine Bow National Forest, and the others are on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and on privately owned land. Occurrences are small, most containing fewer than 100 individuals.
The plant grows on large rock outcrops in pockets of soil and rock cracks. The outcrops are surrounded by forest habitat and sometimes sagebrush and grassland. It grows in shady spots in all aspects. Associated species include fragile fern (Cystopteris fragilis), little-flowered alumroot (Heuchera parvifolia), glandular oceanspray (Holodiscus dumosus), mountain ninebark (Physocarpus monogynus), Brandegee's Jacob's ladder (Polemonium brandegeei), bigflower cinquefoil (Drymocallis fissa), red raspberry (Rubus idaeus), Idaho ragwort (Senecio rapifolius), and Rocky Mountain woodsia (Physematium scopulinum).
There are no major threats to the species because it occurs in remote, rugged habitat.
...Aquilegia laramiensis in languages:
- English
- Laramie Columbine
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Aquilegia alpina
- Aquilegia amaliae
- Aquilegia amurensis
- Aquilegia apuana
- Aquilegia aragonensis
- Aquilegia atrovinosa
- Aquilegia atwoodii
- Aquilegia aurea
- Aquilegia ballii
- Aquilegia barbaricina
- Aquilegia barnebyi
- Aquilegia bernardii
- Aquilegia bertolonii
- Aquilegia blecicii
- Aquilegia borodinii
- Aquilegia brevistyla
- Aquilegia buergeriana
- Aquilegia canadensis
- Aquilegia cazorlensis
- Aquilegia champagnatii
- Aquilegia chrysantha
- Aquilegia chrysantha x desertorum
- Aquilegia chrysantha × triternata
- Aquilegia coerulea
- Aquilegia colchica
- Aquilegia confusa
- Aquilegia cossoniana
- Aquilegia cultorum
- Aquilegia daingolica
- Aquilegia desertorum
- Aquilegia desolaticola
- Aquilegia dinarica
- Aquilegia discolor
- Aquilegia dumeticola
- Aquilegia ecalcarata
- Aquilegia einseleana
- Aquilegia elegantula
- Aquilegia eximia
- Aquilegia flabellata
- Aquilegia flavescens
- Aquilegia formosa
- Aquilegia fosteri
- Aquilegia fragrans
- Aquilegia gegica
- Aquilegia glandulosa
- Aquilegia grata
- Aquilegia grubovii
- Aquilegia guarensis
- Aquilegia hebeica
- Aquilegia hirsutissima
- Aquilegia hispanica
- Aquilegia holmgrenii
- Aquilegia incurvata
- Aquilegia iulia
- Aquilegia jonesii
- Aquilegia jucunda
- Aquilegia kamelinii
- Aquilegia karelinii
- Aquilegia kitaibelii
- Aquilegia kubanica
- Aquilegia lactiflora
- Aquilegia laramiensis
- Aquilegia litardierei
- Aquilegia longissima
- Aquilegia loriae
- Aquilegia lucensis
- Aquilegia magellensis
- Aquilegia marcelliana
- Aquilegia micrantha
- Aquilegia montsicciana
- Aquilegia moorcroftiana
- Aquilegia nevadensis
- Aquilegia nikolicii
- Aquilegia nivalis
- Aquilegia nugorensis
- Aquilegia nuragica
- Aquilegia olympica
- Aquilegia ophiolithica
- Aquilegia ottonis
- Aquilegia oxysepala
- Aquilegia pancicii
- Aquilegia parviflora
- Aquilegia paui
- Aquilegia pubescens
- Aquilegia pubiflora
- Aquilegia pyrenaica
- Aquilegia reuteri
- Aquilegia rockii
- Aquilegia saximontana
- Aquilegia scopulorum
- Aquilegia shockleyi
- Aquilegia sibirica
- Aquilegia sicula
- Aquilegia skinneri
- Aquilegia sternbergii
- Aquilegia subscaposa
- Aquilegia taygetea
- Aquilegia thalictrifolia
- Aquilegia tianschanica
- Aquilegia transsilvanica
- Aquilegia tuvinica
- Aquilegia vicaria
- Aquilegia viridiflora
- Aquilegia viscosa
- Aquilegia vulgaris
- Aquilegia wittmanniana
- Aquilegia xinjiangensis
- Aquilegia yabeana
- Aquilegia yangii




