Paraquilegia anemonoides - Anemone Spurless Columbine

Anemone Spurless Columbine is a perennial herb most commonly found growing in fissures of rocks, with bluish to purplish anemone-like flowers. Flowers are about 2 cm in diameter, carried on 5-14 mm long stalk. Sepals are broadly elliptic to obovate, about 1.3 x 0.8 cm, hairless, tip blunt. Stamen filament are 3-8 mm, anthers about 1 mm. Pistils usually 4 or 5, hairless. Flowering stems are 1-3, about 6-9 cm tall, hairless; bracts narrowly inverted-lanceshaped, 5-9 mm, undivided or 3-sect. Leaves are 2-ternate, hairless; leaf-stalk 1.5-6 cm; leaf blade green, nearly triangular, about 1 x 1-2 cm; leaflet-stalk 1.5-4 mm; leaflet blade broadly rhombic to somewhat kidney-shaped, about 6 x 10 mm, 3-parted to 3-sect, base broadly wedge-shaped; segments cuneiform-obovate, at tip 3-lobulate or with 3 blunt teeth. Seedpods are 8-10 mm, persistent styles about 2 mm. Anemone Spurless Columbine is found in Central Asia to SW Siberia and Himalaya, at altitudes of 2600-3400 m. Flowering: June-July.