绿花耧斗菜

Stems 15--50 cm tall, pubescent or densely glandular hairy, often apically branched. Basal leaves few, 2-ternate; petiole to 18 cm; leaf blade abaxially pubescent to subglabrous, adaxially glabrous; lateral leaflets obliquely obovate, unequally 2-lobed; central leaflet broadly obovate, 1.5--4 × 1--5 cm, 3-lobed and segments with 2 or 3 obtuse teeth. Stem leaves several. Inflorescences cymose, 3--7-flowered; bracts 3-sect. Flowers pendulous, 1.6--2 cm in diam. Pedicel 2--7 cm. Sepals elliptic-ovate, 0.7--1.5 × 0.4--0.8 cm. Petals erect, obovate, nearly as long as sepals, apex subtruncate; spur 1.2--1.8 cm, straight or apically slightly incurved. Stamens to 2 cm, exserted; anthers yellow, narrowly ellipsoid. Staminodes narrowly lanceolate, 7--8 mm. Pistils 5, densely glandular hairy. Style as long as ovary or longer. Follicles ca. 1.5 cm; persistent styles 7--12 mm. Seeds ca. 2 mm, conspicuously striate. Fl. May--Jul, fr. Jul--Aug.

Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, E Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi [Japan, Mongolia, Russia (Siberia)].

Forests, grassy slopes, valleys, wet places, by streams, rocky places by streams; 200--2400 m.

Aquilegia viridiflora, commonly known as the green columbine or green-flowered columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family. Its native range is southern Siberia to northern China, and Japan. It is an herbaceous perennial, and grows 15 cm to 50 cm tall, with a maximum spread of approximately 30 cm. Although it is grown as an ornamental, it may be considered a weed.

There are two named varieties:

A. viridiflora var. atropurpurea (Willd.) Finet & Gagnep. (syn. A. atropurpurea Willd.; A. dahurica Patrin), which is native to China, Mongolia, and Siberia. It has purple flowers. A. viridiflora var. viridiflora, which is native to China, Japan, Mongolia, and Siberia. It has yellow-green flowers.

A. viridiflora 'Chocolate Soldier' is a cultivar with chocolate-brown flowers. It grows up to 30 cm tall.