AQUILEGIA 



(From the Latin aquilegu 



-drawer, not as is commonly said from aquila, eagle) 

 Ranunculacets 



38. Aquilegia chrysantha {A. leptoceras, var. chrysdntha) 

 English Name: Golden-spurred columbine. 



N. MEXICO AND ARIZONA EARLY MAY TO EARLY AUGUST 



NUMEROUS slightly fragrant, clear yellow flowers, two to three 

 inches across, with rather straight, very slender divergent spurs 

 two inches long, carried on graceful branching stems three to four 

 feet high. Fohage dark 

 and handsome, divided 

 into three-lobed leaflets, 

 and lasting well through- 

 out the summer. Excel- 

 lent in the herbaceous 

 border or rock garden, 

 and good for cutting. 



A hardy perennial, the 

 most hardy of the Colum- 

 bines, of easy culture, 

 preferring a deep, moist, 

 but well-drained, sandy 

 loam, in a somewhat shel- 

 tered situation, but with 

 plenty of sun. 



Propagate by divi- 

 sion or by seed, sown as 

 early as possible. 



Var. dlha. Flowers 

 very pale yellowor nearly 

 white . 



Var. Jaeschkani. A 

 smaller plant not ex- 

 ceeding one and one half 

 feet high, flowers large, 

 yellow with red spurs, 

 thought to be a hybrid of A. chrysdntha and A. Skinneri, hence some- 

 times called A, Skinneri^ var. hybrida. 



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