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= Aquilegia Truncata - Red Columbine = Aquilegia Truncata, also known as the Red Columbine, is a flowering plant in the genus Aquilegia.

Description
Growing from one to three feet high, with well-developed stem leaves that are light green. Flowers are nodding and over an inch and a half across. Outside of the corolla is pale-scarlet, veined and tipped with yellow, the inside is yellow and the spurs are erect and three quarters of an inch long.[5. ] The lamina 1-3mm long; follicles 15-20mm long. [4.] Montane forms with short stems and very small stem leaves. Similar dwarf montane races with the floral characters of A. formosa var. formosa occur in the Pacific Northwest; these have never been separated taxonomically. Type locality: Fort Ross, California [4.]

Habitat
Aquilegia Truncata is found mostly in mesic woods or shrublands, open woods or shady banks [4.] in Oregon, Nevada and California. Upper Sororan to Canadian Zones; southern Oregon to northern Lower California and western Nevada. [4.]