Stems 30-72 cm. Basal leaves 2×-ternately compound, 10-30 cm, much shorter than stems; leaflets green adaxially, to 15-47 mm, not viscid; primary petiolules 22-60 mm (leaflets not crowded), pilose or rarely glabrous. Flowers nodding; sepals divergent from or perpendicular to floral axis, mostly blue or purple, lance-ovate, (10-)15-25 × 8-12 mm, apex broadly acute or obtuse; petals: spurs mostly blue or purple, hooked, 14-22 mm, stout, evenly tapered from base, blades mostly blue or purple, oblong, 10-13 × 6-10 mm; stamens 9-13 mm. Follicles 15-25 mm; beak 7-15 mm. 2 n = 14 (Europe).
Foliage as in no. 1 [Aquilegia canadensis L.]; fls nodding, blue, varying to purple, white, or pink, (2.5–)3–4(–5) cm long and wide, stamens not longer than the sep; spurs short and thick, strongly incurved; follicle-beak 5–10 mm; 2n=14. Native of Eurasia, escaped from cult. and locally established esp. in the cooler parts of our range. May–July.
30–90 cm hoch, mit 3–12 Blüten und doppelt 3zähligen Blättern, der mittlere Abschnitt 2. Ordnung oft gestielt. Blüten blauviolett, selten rosa oder weiss, Durchmesser bis 5 cm, nickend, mit 5 abstehenden äusseren und 5 zusammenneigenden und
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