This article is about the flower. For the town, see Columbine, Colorado. For the school shooting, see Columbine High School massacre.
Aquilegia coerulea
Conservation status
Secure (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Order:
Ranunculales
Family:
Ranunculaceae
Genus:
Aquilegia
Species:
A. coerulea
Binomial name
Aquilegia coerulea
E.James
Aquilegia coerulea, the Colorado blue columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to the Rocky Mountains, USA. Aquilegia coerulea is the state flower of Colorado.[2]
The Latin specific name coerulea (or caerulea) means "sky blue".[3]
Sequencing of the genome of this species has advanced the study of the evolution of basal eudicots.[4][5]
Aquilegiacoerulea, the Colorado blue columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to the Rocky Mountains,...
of Aquilegia vulgaris, can be classified as non-toxic, since a dose of 3000 mg/kg did not cause mortality. The Colorado blue columbine (A. coerulea) is...
United States. A. saximontana should not be confused with Aquilegiacoerulea var. coerulea, which overlaps in range and may also have blue and white flowers...
closely related to A. coerulea, a species of Aquilegia native to southern Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. Aquilegia barnebyi grows in full...
Lake, Colorado, specifically on Aquilegiacoerulea flowers. Of the H. lineata individuals that had visited A. coerulea flowers, two groups of moths were...
Aquilegia longissima, the long-spur columbine, is a rare perennial herb that is native to northern Mexico, Trans-Pecos Texas and southern Arizona. In...
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hawkmoths (Hyles lineata) are active is documented in three subspecies of Aquilegiacoerulea, the Rocky Mountain columbine found across the western United States...
lobbyist for efforts to pass legislation protecting the state flower, Aquilegiacoerulea or blue columbine. A job which Schmoll had expected to be short-term...
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