A Couple of Columbines
Like Coville's Columbine, it also gets hybridized with Crimson Columbine, and just like at Yosemite, patches of these variously colored hybrids can be found at Zion.
These two species of columbine, which leapt at me from out of a field guide and a southern Utah seep, remind me of how much more I have to learn about wildflowers. I had no idea so many varieties of columbine were native to North America, beginning with these two...
...which means there are more ... sooner or later...
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