Aquilegia laramiensis

Aquilegia laramiensis is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name Laramie columbine. It is endemic to Wyoming in the United States, where it is known only from the Laramie Mountains. This rhizomatous perennial herb produces stems up to 25 centimeters long. The leaves are compound, divided into leaflets. The nodding flowers have greenish white or lavender sepals up to 1.5 centimeters in length. The cream-colored to lavender petals are up to 1.2 centimeters long and have thick, hooked spurs. The fruit is a follicle up to 1.4 centimeters long. This plant is limited to one mountain range in Albany and Converse Counties in Wyoming. Many occurrences are within Medicine Bow National Forest, and the others are on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and on privately owned land. Occurrences are small, most containing fewer than 100 individuals. The plant grows on large rock outcrops in pockets of soil and rock cracks. The outcrops are surrounded by ......read more on Wikipedia.