Aquilegia coerulea

Aquilegia coerulea, the Colorado blue columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to the Rocky Mountains, USA. Aquilegia coerulea is the state flower of Colorado.^[2]

The Latin specific name coerulea (or caerulea) means "sky blue".^[3]

Sequencing of the genome of this species has advanced the study of the evolution of basal eudicots.^[4]^[5]

^ NatureServe (2023). "Aquilegia caerulea Colorado Columbine". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia: NatureServe. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
^ "State Flower". State of Colorado. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
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^ Filiault, Danièle L; Ballerini, Evangeline S; Mandáková, Terezie; Aköz, Gökçe; Derieg, Nathan J; Schmutz, Jeremy; Jenkins, Jerry; Grimwood, Jane; Shu, Shengqiang; Hayes, Richard D; Hellsten, Uffe; Barry, Kerrie; Yan, Juying; Mihaltcheva, Sirma; Karafiátová, Miroslava (2018-10-16). Hardtke, Christian S; McVean, Gil (eds.). "The Aquilegia genome provides insight into adaptive radiation and reveals an extraordinarily polymorphic chromosome with a unique history". eLife. 7: e36426. doi:10.7554/eLife.36426. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 6255393. PMID 30325307.
^ Aköz, Gökçe; Nordborg, Magnus (2019-11-28). "The Aquilegia genome reveals a hybrid origin of core eudicots". Genome Biology. 20 (1): 256. doi:10.1186/s13059-019-1888-8. ISSN 1474-760X. PMC 6883705. PMID 31779695.