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Aquilegia formosa Fisch.                            Columbine

Plant 3-9 dm tall; leaves ternately compound; leaflets cleft and lobed, pale beneath; flowers nodding, scarlet and yellow; sepals petal-like, 5, spreading and reflexed, red; lower part of petals closed forming a long tube (the spur), usually red; upper part of petals light to bright yellow; follicles mostly 5; common on wooded hillsides and roadsides.

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