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Aquilegia vulgaris
Aquilegia vulgaris (European Columbine, Common Columbine or 'Grannys Nightcap''') is a species of columbine native to Europe. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1.2 m tall, with branched, thinly hairy stems. The leaves are pinnate, with the basal leaflets themselves trifoliate.
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The State Song of Colorado
WHERE THE COLUMBINES GROW
by A.J. Flynn
Where the snowy peaks gleam in the moonlight,
Above the dark forests of pine,
And the wild foaming waters dash onward,
Toward lands where the tropic stars shine;
Where the scream of the bold mountain eagle
Responds to the notes of the dove
Is the purple robed West, the land that is best,
The pioneer land that we love.
Tis the land where the columbines grow,
Overlooking the plains far below,
While the cool summer breeze in the evergreen trees
Softly sings where the columbines grow.
The bison is gone from the upland,
The deer from the canyon has fled,
The home of the wolf is deserted,
The antelope moans for his dead,
The war whoop re-echoes no longer,
The Indian's only a name,
And the nymphs of the grove in their loneliness rove,
But the columbine blooms just the same.
Let the violet brighten the brookside,
In sunlight of earlier spring,
Let the fair clover bedeck the green meadow,
In days when the orioles sing,
Let the golden rod herald the autumn,
But, under the midsummer sky,
In its fair Western home, may the columbine bloom
Till our great mountain rivers run dry.
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Colorful Columbines
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Colombine Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606?607 is a genus of about 60-70 species of columbines, herbaceous perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere. They are known for their distinctive flowers, generally bell-shaped, with each petal modified into an elongated nectar spur. Its fruit takes the form of a follicle.Dezhi & Robinson (2001) Columbine is derived from the Latin word for Dove.
Columbines are closely related to plants in the genera Actaea (baneberries) and Aconitum (wolfsbanes/monkshoods), which like Aquilegia produce cardiogenic toxins.Tilford (1997)
They are used as food plants by some Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) caterpillars. These are mainly of noctuid moths - noted for feeding on many poisonous plants without harm - like Cabbage Moth (Mamestra brassicae), Dot Moth (Melanchra persicariae) and Mouse Moth (Amphipyra tragopoginis). The Engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia), a geometer moth, also uses columbine as larval foodplant.
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- Information on growing Columbines in your own garden.
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- How to grow Columbines - the eHow way.
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Adenium (Desert Roses)
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Language of Flowers
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A rose is a rose is supposedly a rose and according to Shakespeare would by any other name smell as sweet. Whether those suppositions are true or not, the rose has signified love in the language of flowers for a very long time. Similarly, the pansy h...
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Sweet Carnations
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My Great-Grandmother worked well into her 80's at a greenhouse that grew Carnations. Back then, Wheat Ridge, Colorado was the "Carnation Capital" of the United States. Every year, we went to the Carnation Festival. I even got to march in the parade a...
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Flower Essence Remedies
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The Naked Gardener
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Lest you think the title of this lens is a cheap attempt to attact hits, it refers to The Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver, and is not about gardening in the nude any more than Jamie Oliver cooks in the nude. In this sense, "naked" means simple and...
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- ChristiannaGarrett-Martin ChristiannaGarrett-Martin Oct 1, 2008 @ 10:06 am
- Beautiful pictures and a lovely poem!
Great Lens! 5 stars -
Christianna :)
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- daria369 daria369 Oct 1, 2008 @ 7:11 am
- Amazing flowers, more than deserve their own lens and photo gallery... :) Thanks for sharing and bringing them to my attention!
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- BFuniv.com BFuniv.com Sep 30, 2008 @ 8:43 pm
- Beautiful, those pictures make me want to go hiking someplace where I won't see any buildings - for a very long time.
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- flowergardener flowergardener Aug 25, 2008 @ 3:46 am
- You just hit a sore spot with me! Seeing these beautiful flowers makes me want some. Columbines are one plant I cannot grow for the life of me! My neighbor has given me some in the past, and they were gorgeous....he's got them all over.........do you think they grew for me? HA!
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- CorneliaElf CorneliaElf Aug 13, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
- My mother has these blooming now all over her back yard.
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