Yellow Columbine – Aquilegia Flavescens

By Pattyhankins @PattyHankins

I was looking through my notes and realized I’ve edited but never shared several sets of wildflowers from my various trips. So I thought I’d start catching up with my photos of Yellow Columbine – aquilegia flavescens – taken at Glacier National Park. A member of the Buttercup (Ranunculaceae) family, Yellow Columbine is native to the western US states of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregan, Utah, Washington and Alaska. It is also native to the western provinces of Canada. This beautiful summer blooming flower has soft cream to yellow flowers on a plant that grows to 3 feet tall. It prefers to grow in mountain meadows and alpine slopes. The ones I photographed at Glacier National Park were a lovely shade of yellow.