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Colorado Columbine Family:
Buttercup (Ranunculaceae) The State Flower of Colorado grows to
3ft in shady aspen groves and lower elevation meadows as well as in
higher elevation rocks . Leaves are mostly basal, bluish-green and divided into three
roundish lobes. Flowers can be up to 3" across with five, usually blue,
sepals and five white petals with long spurs. The flowers are most often blue but can be white, and rarely, pink
as is the
Colorado
Columbine hybrid. |
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At higher elevations in scree the plants may be only a few inches high.
Photo taken on:
July 14, 2007 Flora of North America reference.
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