Columbine, a flower meant for every garden, is a study in irony. Let’s start with its name. Columbine is derived from columbo, the Latin word for dove. If you take the flower and turn it upside ...

Near it is a tiny picture frame. A bullet appears to have shattered the glass protecting a small purple Columbine flower. The two pieces of art appear in an exhibit at Jefferson County schools ...

Purple is all the rage among gardeners and Mother Nature’s palette is well endowed with shades of purple flowers, fruit and foliage. Looking for perennials with purple flowers? Consider bear’s ...

Columbine flowers (Aquilegia caerulia) are one of the flowers that benefit from thirsty white-lined sphinx moths. These flowers have long petals with a nectar reward at the base, this is called a ...

Wildflowers are in full bloom around Colorado's high country in summer 2025. From the state's official flower the Columbine ...

Plant explorer Dan Hinkley, founder of Heronswood Nursery in Kingston, Wash., stumbled upon the deep-purple blooms of Aquilegia rickii at 14,000 feet in the Birong Valley, China.

Twenty-two years later, on this horrifying and all-American anniversary, when I Google the word “Columbine” the first three suggestions are Columbine shooting, Columbine flower, Columbine ...