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Aquilegia zapateri is a species of perennial flowering plant in the genus Aquilegia (columbines) in the family Ranunculaceae. This species is native to an extremely small range in the Sierra de Albarracín mountains in Aragon, Spain. Growing to 20 cm (7.9 in) tall, it favors rocky habitats and possesses small blue-violet flowers that bloom in June.
Very little is known about the species. It was first described by Carlos Pau y Español in 1895 and named for the Catholic priest and botanist Bernardo Zapater, who had collected the holotype. Since then, it has been repeatedly synonymized to Aquilegia hispanica. The name Aquilegia zapateri is accepted by the International Plant Names Index, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's Plants of the World Online, and World Flora Online.
Aquilegia zapateri prefer temperate climates and possess a very small native range within the Sierra de Albarracín mountain range in the Aragon region of Spain. These columbines are rupicolous (grow among rocks). While the precise site where Zapater collected the holotype was not properly recorded, collections of A. zapateri were made in the 1930s at Moscardón, part of the province of Teruel.
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 zapateri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
