{"id":3772,"date":"2009-09-08T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/a-rare-relative-of-our-state-flower\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:56:34","slug":"a-rare-relative-of-our-state-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2009\/09\/08\/a-rare-relative-of-our-state-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare relative of our state flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7142\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Aquilegia1.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"316\" alt=\"Aquilegia chrysantha var. rydbergii\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Aquilegia1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Aquilegia1-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:78%\">Aquilegia chrysantha<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%\"> var. <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:78%\">rydbergii<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%\">, the golden columbine<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>CNHP botanists Jill Handwerk and Susan Spackman Panjabi visited Arkansas River Canyon in late June to capture these images of the golden columbine (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Aquilegia chrysantha<\/span> var. <span style=\"font-style: italic\">rydbergii<\/span>) in bloom.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7143\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Aquilegia3.jpg\" width=\"268\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Aquilegia chrysantha var. rydbergii\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Aquilegia3.jpg 268w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Aquilegia3-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><span style=\"font-size:78%\">The golden columbine is a critically imperiled (S1) species in Colorado, though the aphids don&#8217;t seem to care.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>In the same genus as the more common Colorado columbine (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Aquilegia coerulea<\/span>), this species is the only all-yellow flowered columbine on the eastern slope of Colorado. Although other very closely related varieties of the golden columbine are found from Texas to Utah, this variety is endemic to El Paso and Fremont counties in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7144\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Aquilegia2.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Aquilegia chrysantha var. rydbergii\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Aquilegia2.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Aquilegia2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquilegia chrysantha var. rydbergii, the golden columbine CNHP botanists Jill Handwerk and Susan Spackman Panjabi visited Arkansas River [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botany","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}