Aquilegia ID

[PaulM]

When I was in Tajikistan in 2005 I collected seeds of an Aquilegia sp, which was growing all over the mountains there. It flowered for me in 2008 but I missed photographing the flowers, but was in time to do it this year. I have been scouring Robert Nold's book on the genus, but can't find a good match. Hopefully someone else is more familiar with obscure species from Central Asia.

[maggiepie]

Paul, I hope someone can ID the plant for you, it is absolutely beautiful.
Aquilegias are some of my most favourite plants, unfortunately for me they are also favourites of sawflies and wee harlequin bugs

[Lesley Cox]

A beautiful species all right.

[arisaema]

Might be a long shot, but did you try keying it in Flora of China? If it's widespread in Tadjikistan there's a good chance it may be found in Xinjiang as well... What about A. lactiflora, Nold mentions v. dichroantha as having pale purple spurs.

[Great Moravian]

Might be a long shot, but did you try keying it in Flora of China? If it's widespread in Tadjikistan there's a good chance it may be found in Xinjiang as well... What about A. lactiflora, Nold mentions v. dichroantha as having pale purple spurs.

Yes, it might belong to the alliance. A. coelestis is a preliminary guess, which belongs to A. lactiflora.

[Great Moravian]

Paul,
You should repost the images to a Russian forum for identification.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5357.0

[ILoveMyPlants]

i think you will find this may be a

AQUILEGIA CAERULEA

hope this helps


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[Diane Clement]

i think you will find this may be a  AQUILEGIA CAERULEA  

Not in Tadjikistan it isn't 
Lovely plant, though, whatever it is

[Great Moravian]

Not in Tadjikistan it isn't
Lovely plant, though, whatever it is

And spurs are thinner and flowers not drooping in A. coerulea.