Aquilegia dinarica
Aquilegia dinarica | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Ranunculales |
Family: | Ranunculaceae |
Genus: | Aquilegia |
Species: | A. dinarica |
Binomial name | |
Aquilegia dinarica | |
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Aquilegia dinarica, the Dinaric columbine, is a perennial species of plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to the Dinaric Alps of northern Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Montenegro.[1]
![A pale blue columbine growing amid limestone scree in the Dinaric Alps.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Aquilegia_dinarica_calcareous_scree_Jastrebica_leg_P.Cikovac.jpg/220px-Aquilegia_dinarica_calcareous_scree_Jastrebica_leg_P.Cikovac.jpg)
Description
[edit]The Dinaric columbine grows to 20cm, with blue sepals and white petals sometimes flushed with blue or violet. The basal leaves are ternate, and the leaflets trifid, grey and hairy.[2]
Habitat
[edit]It grows primarily in calcareous rocks and scree[2] at altitudes between 1200m and 2100m, and sometimes in snow valleys and snow pits at the edge of coniferous woodland.[3] It is adapted to open habitats, which separates the species ecologically from the sympatric A. grata.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Aquilegia dinarica Beck". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2023. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Aquilegia dinarica". Alpine Garden Society Plant Encyclopaedia. Alpine Garden Society. 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ Paul Ascherson & Paul Graebner Synopsis der mitteleuropäischen Flora, Band 5/2, Ranales (Ranunculaceae, Fortsetzung). Borntraeger, Leipzig, 1929, S. 647.
- ^ Niketić, Marjan; Cikovac, Pavle; Stevanović, Vladimir (2013). "Taxonomic and Nomenclature Notes on Balkan Columbines (Aquilegia L., Ranunculaceae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. 6: 33–42. doi:10.5937/bnhmb1306033N.
External links
[edit]Media related to Aquilegia dinarica at Wikimedia Commons