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Foster's columbine
Aquilegia fosteri
Aquilegia fosteri, common name Foster's columbine, is a perennial flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Utah and Arizona.
From the article Aquilegia fosteri on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Aquilegia fosteri is a perennial herbaceous plant with glandular-pubescent stems and foliage, and large red-and-yellow or pink-and-yellow flowers with long nectar spurs.
Range & habitat
Aquilegia fosteri is native to northwestern Arizona and Zion Canyon in Utah, where it grows high on sandstone canyon walls in rock crevices.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
In human culture
The specific epithet and former variety name fosteri honours the American botanist Robert Alan Foster (1938–2002), who collected the type specimen in 1977.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Aquilegia fosteri in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 836759.