Aquilegia coerulea (Introduced)

Aquilegia coerulea James, Account Exped. Pittsburgh, ed. Philadelphia, 2: 15 (1822) (syn: Aquilegia leptoceras Nutt.; Aquilegia macrantha Hook. & Arn.);
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USA (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) as per Catalogue of Life;
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Sending photos of Columbine flower from Srinagar.
Ornamental plant grown in gardens.
Botanical name :  Aquilegia caerulea
Place   : Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir
Date :  June 2009

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Aquilegia coerulea ‘Sunshine’ from California-GS15012021-1
Aquilegia coerulea E. James Cultivar: ‘Sunshine’

The cultivar is characterised by yellow flowers. There is some confusion in spellings of specific epithet. Whereas POWO, Catalogue of Life and IPNI and Wikipedia (which is generally reliable) use coerulea, TPL, WFO, TROPICOS and some websites use caerulea, and to add to the confusion some websites even use x caerulea.
Photographed from Regan Nursery, Fremont, California, 14-4-2019
Perhaps spellings in our website may also need correction. there is one post by … from Srinagar

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Aquilegia coerulea ‘Red and White’ from California-GS15012021-2
Aquilegia coerulea E. James Cultivar: ‘Red and White’

The cultivar is characterised by red and white flowers.
As discussed in previous post there is some confusion in spellings of specific epithet.Whereas POWO, Catalogue of Life and IPNI and Wikipedia (which is generally reliable) use coerulea, TPL, WFO, TROPICOS and some websites use caerulea, and to add to the confusion some websites even use x caerulea.
Photographed from Regan Nursery, Fremont, California, 14-4-2019

References:
https://www.perennials.com/plants/aquilegia-caerulea-origami-red-and-white.html
https://www.highcountrygardens.com/perennial-plants/aquilegia/aquilegia-caerulea-red-hobbit
https://www.monrovia.com/kirigami-153-red-white-columbine.html

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Beautiful Plant for Id:
find attached photo Taken BY My friend Dr Nidhan Singh for id
At present i don’t have much details

Not Delphinium, which has only one spur. It has five spurs and as such is an Aquilegia species.


it is Aquilegia formosa. I have  photographed this flower at Srinagar last year. It is a beautiful flower. I am sending the photo of the flower taken by me in Srinagar.

the plant is undoubtedly Aquilegia formosa


here is one more in different color shot at the same garden.

This appears close to images at Aquilegia coerulea James

 

 

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References:
POWO  Catalogue of Life  The Plant List Ver. 1.1  IPNI