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The genus Aquilegia is in the family Ranunculaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Aquilegia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Aquilegia alpina L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia amurensis Kom.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia atrata Koch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia atrovinosa Popov ex Gamajun.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia atwoodii S.L.Welsh	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia aurea Janka	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia baltistanica Qureshi & Chaudhri	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia baluchistanica Qureshi & Chaudhri	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia barbaricina Arrigoni & E.Nardi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia barnebyi Munz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia bernardii Gren. & Gord.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia bertolonii Schott	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia borodinii Schischk.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia brevicalcarata Kolok.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia brevistyla Hook.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia buergeriana Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia caerulea E.James	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia canadensis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia champagnatii Moraldo, Nardi & la Valva	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia chitralensis Qureshi & Chaudhri	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia chrysantha A.Gray	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia coelestis Fed.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia colchica Kem.-Nath.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia × cottia Beyer	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia cymosa Qureshi & Chaudhri	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia desertorum (M.E.Jones) Cockerell ex A.Heller	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia desolaticola S.L.Welsh & N.D.Atwood	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia dichroa Freyn	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia dinarica Beck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia ecalcarata Maxim.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia einseleana F.W.Schultz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia elegantula Greene	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia euchroma Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia eximia Van Houtte ex Planch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia flabellata Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia flavescens S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia formosa Fisch. ex DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia fosteri (S.L.Welsh) S.L.Welsh	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia fragrans Benth.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia ganboldii Kamelin & Gubanov	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia gegica Jabr.-Kolak.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia glandulosa Fisch. ex Link.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia gracillima Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia grahamii S.L.Welsh & Goodrich	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia grata Maly ex Zimmeter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia incurvata P.K.Hsiao	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia jonesii Parry	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia karatavica Mikeschin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia karelinii (Baker) O.Fedtsch. & B.Fedtsch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia kitaibelii Schott	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia kozakii Masam.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia kubanica I.M.Vassiljeva	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia kurramensis Qureshi & Chaudhri	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia lactiflora Kar. & Kir.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia laramiensis A.Nelson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia leptocera Nutt.	Accepted		TRO
Aquilegia litardierei Briq.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia longissima A.Gray ex S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia loriae S.L.Welsh & N.D.Atwood	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia magellensis F.Conti & Soldano	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia maimanica Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia × maruyamana Kitam.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia micrantha Eastw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia microcentra Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia microphylla (Korsh.) Ikonn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia moorcroftiana Wall. ex Royle	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia nakaoi Tamura	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia nevadensis Boiss. & Reut.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia nigricans Baumg.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia nivalis (Baker) Falc. ex B.D.Jacks.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia nugorensis Arrigoni & E.Nardi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia nuragica Arrigoni & E.Nardi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia ochotensis Vorosch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia olympica Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia ottonis Orph. ex Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia oxysepala Trautv. & C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia pancicii Degen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia parviflora Ledeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia paui Font Quer	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia pubescens Coville	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia pubiflora Wall. ex Royle	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia pyrenaica DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia rockii Munz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia saximontana Rydb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia scopulorum Tidestr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia shockleyi Eastw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia sibirica Lam.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia skinneri Hook.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia thalictrifolia Schott & Kotschy	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia tianschanica Butkov	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia transsilvanica Schur	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia triternata Payson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia turczaninowii Kamelin & Gubanov	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia tuvinica I.M.Vassiljeva	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia vestinae Pfenn. & D.M.Moser	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia vicaria Nevski	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia viridiflora Pall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia viscosa Gouan	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia vitalii Gamajun.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia vulgaris L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Aquilegia yabeana Kitag.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 266 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Aquilegia. Of these 101 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 344 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Aquilegia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 266 species names for the genus Aquilegia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	101	38.0%
◕	Synonym	148	55.6%
◕	Unplaced	6	2.3%
◕	Unassessed	11	4.1%

All names

The status of the 610 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Aquilegia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	117	19.2%
◕	Synonym	475	77.9%
◕	Unplaced	6	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	12	2.0%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 12 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 266 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Aquilegia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	98	142	0	0	240	90.2%
	Low confidence	3	6	6	11	26	9.8%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Aquilegia, are as follows: