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Aquilegia laramiensis
Laramie columbine is a small rhizomatous perennial with nodding greenish white to lavender flowers, found only in the Laramie Mountains of Wyoming. It is a rare, narrowly endemic wild species, so it is grown mainly by specialist native-plant gardeners rather than in general trade.
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 (9.8 in) long. The leaves are compound, divided into leaflets. The nodding flowers have greenish white or lavender sepals up to 1.5 centimeters (0.59 in) in length. The cream-colored to lavender petals are up to 1.2 centimeters (0.47 in) long and have thick, hooked spurs. The fruit is a follicle up to 1.4 centimeters (0.55 in) long.
Aquilegia alpina · Aquilegia amaliae · Fan Columbine · Aquilegia apuana · Aquilegia aradanica · Aquilegia aragonensis · Dark Columbine · Aquilegia atrovinosa · Atwood's Columbine · Aquilegia aurea · Aquilegia ballii · Aquilegia baluchistanica
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aquilegia laramiensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
