Aquilegia glandulosaFisch.

WFO wfo-0000541359 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Aquilegia glandulosa, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. a Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-01 / obs. 148511823
Aquilegia glandulosa, photographed by Татьяна Фирсова
fig. b Татьяна Фирсова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 79988092
Aquilegia glandulosa, photographed by Юлия
fig. c Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 79084861
Aquilegia glandulosa, photographed by Vsevolod Rudyi
fig. d Vsevolod Rudyi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29768216
Aquilegia glandulosa, photographed by Andrew Bazdyrev
fig. e Andrew Bazdyrev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112538913
Aquilegia glandulosa, photographed by Фая Баландина
fig. f Фая Баландина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 77353299
Aquilegia glandulosa, photographed by Алексей Логинов
fig. g Алексей Логинов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113676364
Aquilegia glandulosa, photographed by Фая Баландина
fig. h Фая Баландина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 77834635

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04997997
Filed as
Aquilegia glandulosa Fisch. ex Link.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Aquilegia glandulosa is native: Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya AltayBuryatiyaChitaIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiya
Native distribution of Aquilegia glandulosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 344 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -29.3 °C -22.5 °C -18.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 12.2 °C 16.0 °C 20.7 °C
Annual rainfall 668 mm 1,302 mm 2,972 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 46 mm 109 mm 475 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 344 research-grade observations of Aquilegia glandulosa that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 23 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aquilegia alpina var. grandiflora (Walp.) DC.
  • Aquilegia brevicalcarata Kolokoln. ex Serg.
  • Aquilegia discolor Steud.
  • Aquilegia gebleri Besser ex Turcz.
  • Aquilegia glandulosa var. bicolor Regel
  • Aquilegia glandulosa var. concolor DC.
  • Aquilegia glandulosa var. discolor DC.
  • Aquilegia glandulosa var. intermedia Regel
  • Aquilegia glandulosa var. jucunda (Fisch. & Avé-Lall.) Baker
  • Aquilegia glandulosa var. parviflora Regel
  • Aquilegia glandulosa var. stenopetala Regel
  • Aquilegia glandulosa var. unicolor Regel
  • Aquilegia grandiflora Schangin
  • Aquilegia grandiflora Patr. ex DC.
  • Aquilegia jucunda Fisch. & C.A.Mey. ex Ledeb.
  • Aquilegia jucunda Fisch. & Avé-Lall.
  • Aquilegia sibirica Schur ex Nyman
  • Aquilegia vulgaris subsp. glandulosa (Fisch. ex Link) Brühl
  • Aquilegia vulgaris subsp. jucunda (Fisch. & Avé-Lall.) Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Aquilegia vulgaris var. gebleri Besser ex Brühl
  • Aquilegia vulgaris var. grandiflora Walp.
  • Aquilegia vulgaris var. jucunda (Fisch. & Avé-Lall.) Brühl
  • Aquilegia vulgaris var. vera Brühl

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.