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Common Name: Columbine
Scientific Name: Aquilegia
Family: Ranunculaceae
Saluda, North Carolina
May 6, 2002
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Columbines have a fairylike, woodland quality with their lacy foliage and beautifully posed flowers in exquisite pastels, deeper shades, and white. Erect, 2 inches - 4 feet high, depending on species or hybrid. Fresh green, blue-green, or gray-green divided leaves reminiscent of maidenhair fern. Slender, branching stems carry flowers to 3 inches across, erect or nodding, often with sepals and petals in contrasting colors; they usually have backward-projecting, nectar-bearing spurs. Some columbines have large flowers and very long spurs; these have an airier look than short-spurred and spurless kinds. Double-flowered types lack the delicacy of those with single blossoms, but they make a bolder color mass. Bloom season for columbines is spring, early summer. [Bender, Steve, Southern Living Garden Book, The. Oxmoor House, Inc., Book Division of Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, 1998]
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Genus Listings -- A B C D, E F G H I, J, K L M N, O P Q, R S T U, V W X, Y, Z