Aquilegia alpina
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Ranunculales |
Family: | Ranunculaceae |
Genus: | Aquilegia |
Species: | A. alpina
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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
[edit]- ^ Sp. Pl.: 522 (1753)
- ^ a b "Aquilegia alpina L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Aquilegia alpina alpine columbine". The Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
Other common names; breath of God
- ^ 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.