Colorado blue columbine

Description:

The state flower of Colorado. The petals are commonly pale blue, but they can also be red, yellow, or pink.

Habitat:

These are found all over the Rocky Mountains in the United States. This picture was taken in the southern Mount Evans Wilderness west of Denver.

Notes:

This may be a Rocky Mountain columbine (Aquilegia saximontana), a slightly different species found in the same area that looks almost exactly the same. But my understanding is that the Colorado Blue is more common.