Aquilegia alpina
Flower
Botanical illustration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Aquilegia
Species:
A. alpina
Binomial name
Aquilegia alpina
Synonyms[2]
  • Aquilegia alpina f. gracilis Chenevard & Braun-Blanq.
  • Aquilegia alpina var. minor Rouy & Foucaud
  • Aquilegia montana Sternb.
  • Aquilegia reuteriana Rchb. ex Nyman
  • Aquilegia vulgaris subsp. alpina (L.) Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Aquilegia vulgaris var. typica Brühl

Aquilegia alpina, the alpine columbine or breath of God, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the Alps,[2][3] where it is typically found growing on carbonate bedrock.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Sp. Pl.: 522 (1753)
  2. 1 2 "Aquilegia alpina L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. ↑ "Aquilegia alpina alpine columbine". The Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 1 January 2021. Other common names; breath of God
  4. ↑ Caironi, Valeria; Crosa Lenz, Beatrice; Bollati, Iren Maria (2020). "A multidisciplinary approach for physical landscape analysis: Scientific value and risk of degradation of outstanding landforms in the glacial plateau of the Loana Valley (Central-Western Italian Alps)". Italian Journal of Geosciences. 139 (2): 233–251. doi:10.3301/IJG.2020.01. S2CID 216271412.


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