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A delicate mountain wildflower whose name was stolen by a tragedy and never gave it back.
means A delicate woodland or mountain wildflower of the genus Aquilegia, with distinctive spurred, five-petaled blooms in shades of blue, red, purple, and white.
from From Latin 'columbinus,' meaning 'dove-like' or 'pertaining to doves,' from 'columba,' a dove — the upturned, clustered flowers were thought to resemble a ring of doves bending together, as if drinking or roosting. The same Latin root for 'dove' also gives us the name Columbus and the bird-keeper's columbarium. (The flower also lends its name to Columbine, the clever serving-maid of Italian commedia dell'arte — and, far more grimly, to a Colorado high school, which is how a dove-named blossom came to carry a wound it never asked for.)
- name origin
- From Latin columba, meaning dove
- state flower
- Colorado's official bloom since 1899
- alpine survivor
- Thrives in rocky soil others refuse
- hummingbird magnet
- Long spurs feed long-tongued pollinators
- folklore
- Once symbolized both foolishness and faithfulness
columbine high school shooting — april 20, 1999 massacre in littleton, colorado that killed 13 people
columbine flower — aquilegia genus of flowering plants, state flower of colorado