The Dinaric columbine grows to 20cm, with blue sepals and white petals sometimes flushed with blue or violet. The basal leaves are ternate, and the leaflets trifid, grey and hairy.[2]
Habitat
It grows primarily in calcareous rocks and scree[2] at altitudes between 1200m and 2100m, and sometimes in snow valleys and snow pits at the edge of coniferous woodland.[3] It is adapted to open habitats, which separates the species ecologically from the sympatricA. grata.[4]
References
^ ab"Aquilegia dinarica Beck". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2023. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^ ab"Aquilegia dinarica". Alpine Garden Society Plant Encyclopaedia. Alpine Garden Society. 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^Paul Ascherson & Paul GraebnerSynopsis der mitteleuropäischen Flora, Band 5/2, Ranales (Ranunculaceae, Fortsetzung). Borntraeger, Leipzig, 1929, S. 647.
