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 ...

The following was taken from Dr. Lloyd Shaw’s book “Nature Notes of the Pikes Peak Region,” which was published in 1916. “Chosen by the school children of our state, the Colorado 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.

Although it is an old-fashioned flower, columbine is still popular. It often appears by roadsides as an escape from gardens. It is a native plant, but the truly wild kind is rare, found in the ...

For Colorado, the state flower is the columbine. It is a big, beautiful blue, almost lavender, and white flower that blooms in late spring.