RHH's photos with the keyword: aquilegia

Photographed along the Harding Icefields trail in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.

Photographed in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, along the Harding Icefields trail in the Exit Glacier section of the park.

Photographed near Cathedral Lake in the Colorado Rockies, this is the state flower of Colorado and one of its most beautiful wildflowers.

This Colorado Blue Columbine was photographed above Snowmass Lake in the Colorado Rockies in 2020 while backpacking there.

Photographed near Cathedral Lake in the Colorado Rockies, Aquilegia coerulea is one of the most beautiful wildflowers of the Rockies.

These Colorado Blue Columbine were photographed near Cathedral Lake in the Colorado Rockies.

When we found these Columbine while hiking neither of us had ever seen anything like it and concluded that they had to be a variety of the Colorado Blue Columbine. When we were able to look them up we discovered that they were indeed a rare spurless variety of the Blue Columbine, Aquilegia coerulea var. daileyea.

After hiking the trails around Maroon Lake we had lunch in the picnic area and photographed there these Colorado Blue Columbine. We agreed that we had never seen such a dark blue specimen of these wonderful wildflowers.

This is the Colorado Blue Columbine, Aquilegia caerulea, photographed in the area of Maroon Lake in the Colorado Rockies. We would see this beautiful wildflower in abundance while backpacking in the Maroon Bells.

This is the Colorado Blue Columbine, Aquilegia caerulea, photographed in the area of Maroon Lake in the Colorado Rockies.

This is the Colorado Blue Columbine, Aquilegia caerulea, photographed in the area of Maroon Lake in the Colorado Rockies.

The wildflowers we saw while hiking in the Colorado Rockies were unbelievable. Many of the mountain meadows were like gardens. I haven't posted any photos yet of them, but we saw Indian Paintbrush in every imaginable shade and many flowers, too, that we did not recognize and still have to identify. My favorite, though, is the Blue Columbine, a wildflower I had not seen for many years and was delighted to see again. This example was photographed near Maroon Lake.

When touring the upper Lake Huron shore recently these Red Columbine were in bloom everywhere.

These wildflower photos were taken when we were traveling through the Canadian Rockies in 2014, this near Lake Louise. It is the Yellow Columbine, Aquilegia flavescens.

This photo was taken by my wife in Banff National Park in Alberta along the Grassi Lakes trail. We were in Canmore and hiked to Grassi Lakes looking for orchids and other wildflowers when she took this photo. The inset photo is mine and shows the Red Columbine, another beautiful native.

This photo was taken in Mount Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia. Red Columbine is one of the most beautiful wildflowers of the western mountains and it was at the peak of its bloom season when we were in Robson.

Photographed in the perennial gardens at Manito City Park, Spokane, Washington.

This is the Sitka Columbina, Aquilegia formosa, very similar to the eastern Red Columbine, Aquilegia canadensis. It is a wildflower we see often but is never without charm. This one was photographed by my wife on the Weldon Wagon trail in the Columbia River gorge.