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Golden columbine
Aquilegia chrysantha
34.6483, -111.751
Field Notes
Description:
Low bushy plant with bright yellow, five-spurred flowers.
Habitat:
Damp wooded canyons with filtered sunlight, throughout American southwest and northern Mexico.
Hundreds of these flowers lined the banks of Wet Beaver Creek, running through a valley of open broadleaf forest in Montezuma Well National Monument, south of Sedona, Arizona.
Notes:
"Montezuma Well" is a spring-fed limestone sinkhole 300 feet wide. Wet Beaver Creek runs through a valley beneath the well. Paralleling the creek is an irrigation canal, built and used by native Americans between 700 and 1400 A.D., and still flowing today. A delightful habitat--running water in the desert.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedJanuary 17, 2020
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