Biology:Aquilegia viridiflora

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Short description: West Asian species of columbine

Aquilegia viridiflora
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Aquilegia
Species:
A. viridiflora
Binomial name
Aquilegia viridiflora
Pall.
Synonyms[3]
  • Aquilegia buriatica Peschkova
  • Aquilegia canadensis Pall.[lower-roman 1]
  • Aquilegia elata Ledeb.
  • Aquilegia flava Lam.
  • Aquilegia hybrida Sims
  • Aquilegia lutea Lam.

Aquilegia viridiflora, commonly known as the green columbine[4] or green-flowered columbine,[5] is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family.[6] Its native range is southern Siberia to northern China , and Japan .[3] It is an herbaceous perennial,[7] and grows 15 cm to 50 cm tall,[8] with a maximum spread of approximately 30 cm.[4] Although it is grown as an ornamental,[9] it may be considered a weed.[10]

There are two named varieties:[11]

  • A. viridiflora var. atropurpurea (Willd.) Finet & Gagnep.[12] (syn. A. atropurpurea Willd.;[13] A. dahurica Patrin),[14] which is native to China,[lower-roman 2] Mongolia, and Siberia.[15] It has purple flowers.
  • A. viridiflora var. viridiflora,[lower-roman 3] which is native to China,[lower-roman 4] Japan, Mongolia, and Siberia. It has yellow-green flowers.

A. viridiflora 'Chocolate Soldier' is a cultivar with chocolate-brown flowers.[17] It grows up to 30 cm tall.[18]

Notes

  1. ↑ Not to be confused with Aquilegia canadensis L., which is a different species of Aquilegia.[1] This name was misapplied to A. viridiflora.[2]
  2. ↑ A. viridiflora var. atropurpurea is native to the following Chinese provinces: Hebei, southern Liaoning, Nei Mongol, eastern Qinghai, southern Shandong, and Shanxi.[11]
  3. ↑ Other sources consider A. viridiflora var. viridiflora to be a synonym of A. viridiflora rather than a variety thereof.[16]
  4. ↑ A. viridiflora var. viridiflora is native to the following Chinese provinces: Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shandong, and Shanxi.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Aquilegia canadensis L.". Kew Science. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30028287-2. 
  2. ↑ "Aquilegia viridiflora Pall.". http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2645036?ref=tpl1. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Aquilegia viridiflora Pall.". Kew Science. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:709047-1. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Aquilegia viridiflora (Columbine, Green Columbine)". https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/aquilegia-viridiflora/. 
  5. ↑ "Aquilegia viridiflora | green-flowered columbine". Royal Horticultural Society. http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/1425/Aquilegia-viridiflora/Details. 
  6. ↑ "Taxonomy browser (Aquilegia viridiflora)". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=946050&lvl=3&p=has_linkout&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock. 
  7. ↑ "Aquilegia viridiflora". http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderComments.aspx?taxonid=286249&8. 
  8. ↑ "Aquilegia viridiflora Pall.". 2021. http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000541598. 
  9. ↑ "10 aquilegias to grow" (in en). https://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/10-aquilegias/. 
  10. ↑ "Aquilegia viridiflora information from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW)". 4 October 2007. http://hear.its.hawaii.edu/gcw/species/aquilegia_viridiflora/. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Dezhi, Fu; Robinson, Orbélia R. 19. AQUILEGIA Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 533. 1753. Flora of China 6: 278–281. 2001.
  12. ↑ "Taxonomy browser (Aquilegia viridiflora var. atropurpurea)". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=1506457&lvl=3&p=has_linkout&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock. 
  13. ↑ "Aquilegia atropurpurea Willd.". http://hortuscamden.com/plants/print/aquilegia-atropurpurea-willd. 
  14. ↑ "Aquilegia dahurica Patrin" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/119043991. 
  15. ↑ "Aquilegia viridiflora var. atropurpurea". Royal Horticultural Society. http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/259257/i-Aquilegia-viridiflora-i-var-i-atropurpurea-i/Details. 
  16. ↑ "Aquilegia viridiflora var. viridiflora". http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001264671. 
  17. ↑ "Aquilegia viridiflora 'Chocolate Soldier'" (in en). https://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/aquilegia-viridiflora-chocolate-soldier/. 
  18. ↑ "Chocolate plants - in pictures" (in en-GB). The Guardian. 2012-04-06. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2012/apr/06/chocolate-plants-cosmos-dahlia. 

Bibliography


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