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Aconitum columbianum (Monkshood) — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Aconitum columbianum

Common names: Monkshood, monkshood

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae

Roles: habitat component, pollen source, study subject

ITIS TSN: 18416

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 30 | Mentions: 34

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Publications (30)

Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

2025Role: text_match

Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

2025Role: text_match

Testing the marginal value theorem on Bombus appositus and Bombus nevadensis

2025Role: text_match

How do Bombus appositus and Bombus bifarius worker tongue lengths vary within a season?

2024Role: text_match

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

2024Role: pollen source

The Effect of Snowmelt Timing on Pollinator Visitation to Subalpine Wildflowers

2022Role: text_match

Nectar Variation in Simple and Compound Flowers; and its Effects on Plant Pollinator Interactions

2021Role: text_match

Quantifying Nectar Trait Responses to Natural Variation in Water Availability in Subalpine Plant Communities

Documents (4)

technical report

A Classification of the Riparian Vegetation of the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado

Moist Forests

environmental assessment

Vegetation Appendix Materials for Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

environmental assessment

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Co-occurring Species

Aconitum

Ranunculaceae34 shared papers

Delphinium

Ranunculaceae32 shared papers

Delphinium barbeyi

Ranunculaceae25 shared papers

Bombus

Apidae21 shared papers

Delphinium nuttallianum

Ranunculaceae20 shared papers

Bombus appositus

Apidae17 shared papers

Bombus terrestris

Apidae17 shared papers

Bombus vosnesenskii

Apidae16 shared papers

B. rufocinctus

16 shared papers

B. vosnesenskii

16 shared papers

2020Role: text_match

Characterizing nectar content in wet and dry subalpine meadows during an extreme summer drought

2018Role: text_match

Does bumble bee (<i>Bombus spp.</i>) diet breadth vary with differences in floral resource abundance?

2017Role: text_match

Bill Morphology and Niche Partitioning in <i>Selasphorus platycercus</i>

2016Role: text_match

Effects of climate change on phenologies and distributions of bumble bees and the plants they visit

2016EcosphereRole: text_match

Impacts of early snow removal and frost on the reproductive success of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>

2016Role: text_match

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

2016Role: text_match

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

2016Role: text_match

Does Bumble Bee Diet Breadth vary with the Floral Abundance in a Meadow?

2015Role: text_match

Floral visitation determined by phylogenetic distance in the plant communities of Gothic, CO.

2014Role: text_match

Stimulation of flower nectar replenishment by removal: a survey of eleven animal-pollinated plant species

2014Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match

How does altered phenology affect pollination and reproduction of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>?

2013Role: text_match

Spatial distribution of mule deer (<i>Odocoileus hemionus</i>): Effects of plant palatability and habitat structure

2011Role: text_match

Bumblebee foraging on vertical inflorescences: optimal or not?

2009Role: text_match

The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

2009Role: study subject

Pollination subsidies between wetland and dry meadow habitats

2007Role: text_match

Reproductive and physiological responses to simulated climate warming for four subalpine species

2007New PhytologistRole: text_match

Are native bees picky enough? The effect of an invasive plant, <i>Linaria vulgaris</i>, on the foraging of native bee pollinators

2006Role: text_match

Effects of Local Density on Pollination and Reproduction in <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i> and <i>Aconitum columbianum</i> (Ranunculaceae)

1999American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

The effect of inflorescence size on pollinator visitation of Delphinium nelsonii and Aconitum columbianum

1990Collectanea Botanica (Barcelona)Role: text_match

Foraging in bumblebees: rule of departure from an inflorescence

1982Canadian Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match

Resource partitioning in bumblebees: experimental studies of foraging behavior

1978EcologyRole: text_match

Bumblebee pollinators of <i>Aconitum columbianum</i> and <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i>

1974Role: text_match