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
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Binomial name | |
Aquilegia dinarica | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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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]
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]
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]