Aquilegia flavescens
Yellow Columbine

Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)

Photo taken near Swauk Pass, open talus slope

Flowers:

flowers nodding; sepals yellow; petal blade yellow, 6 to 13 mm; spur yellow to occasionally pinkish, more or less incurved

Fruit:

follicles erect

Leaves:

basal and lower cauline leaves 2 to 3 ternate, upper cauline leaves 3 lobed

Plant:

perennial

Habitat:

moist mountain meadows to alpine slopes

Distribution of species:

southern British Columbia to Kittitas County, east to Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Utah, and northeast Oregon

Distribution of genus:

more or less 70 species: temperate North America and Eurasia