COLUMBINE, in Botany

kŏlˈəmbīn, any plant of the genus Aquilegia, temperate-zone perennials of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family), popular both as wildflowers and as garden flowers. Columbines have delicate and attractive foliage and flower petals with long spurs that secrete nectar. The common Eastern red-and-yellow-flowered wild columbine (A. canadensis), frequenting rocky places, is also called rockbell; it is a favorite of hummingbirds, and Native Americans made an infusion of the seeds for headache and fever. The blue-and-white-flowered A. coerulea of the Rockies is the state flower of Colorado. The common European columbine (A. vulgaris), blue, white, or purple flowered, has been the source of many cultivars—some double and of various soft colors. Columbine is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Ranunculales, family Ranunculaceae.

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Vistas in Botany
Book by W. B Turrill; Pergamon, 1959
Subjects: Botany
...C. ROLLINS AND G. TAYLOR VOLUME 2 VISTAS IN BOTANY VISTAS IN BOTANY Honorary Editorial Advisory Board Sir...SCHULTES -- Orchids of Trinidad and Tobago Vistas in Botany A VOLUME IN HONOUR OF THE BICENTENARY OF THE...
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Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple Introduction to Structural Botany: with a Popular Flora, or an Arrangement and Description of Common Plants, Both Wild and Cultivated
Book by Asa Gray; Ivison, Blakeman, 1858
Subjects: Botany
...Natural System of Classification in Botany, " III. " 96 . How to study...would be confusion and guess-work. In Botany the number of technical words which...continue the study in the Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology , and in...
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Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470-1670
Book by Agnes Arber; University Press, 1938
Subjects: Botanical Literature, Botany--History, Botany--Pre-Linnean Works--Bibliography, Herbs
...Botanic Garden at Pisa. Print in the Botany School, Cambridge 144...Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519. Drawing in the Royal Library, Windsor Reduced...xxi. Study of Aquilegia vulgaris L., Columbine Albrecht Durer, 1526. Drawing in the...
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The Green Earth: An Invitation to Botany
Book by Harold William Rickett; Jacques Cattell Press, 1943
Subjects: Botany
...that await the traveler in this promised land; that...the book an Invitation to Botany. The sciences have their...not tried to "popularize" botany in the sense of emptying it...much like that of courses in botany which I have taught. I am...
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Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel
Book by Amy M. King; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Botany In Literature, English Fiction--History And Criticism, Flowers In Literature, Literature And Science--Great Britain, Plants In Literature
...fiction History and criticism. 2. Botany in literature. 3. Literature and science...and rhetorical study of Linnaean botany in England, demonstrating ways that...explicit references to Linnaean botany in various literary genres, it is still...
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Multiple Objectives Achieved with a Germination Experiment in a Science Education Biology Class
Journal article by Ken Bergwerff, David Warners; The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 69, 2007
Subjects: Botany--Environmental aspects, Botany--Study and teaching, Plant ecology--Study and teaching, Science education--Study and teaching, Science experiments (Education)--Evaluation, Science experiments (Education)--Methods, Science experiments--Evaluation, Science experiments--Methods, Science literacy--Management, Sciences education--Study and teaching
...on the availability of seeds. In addition, a few species we use...purple loosestrife, such as wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) and purple...pre Table 1. Species included in 2003 germination experiment...Wild Columbine <br/ (Coreopsis tripteris...
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Strange Brothers
Journal article by Jonathan Goldberg; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 28, 1996
Subjects: Cather, Willa--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gay literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Professor's House (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...94-95. (9) Sharon OBrien, Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1987), for instance, while certainly aware of the importance of Lewis role in Cathers life, nonetheless complains that "one doesnt learn much about this relationship...
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The Court of Vice Admiralty at Sierra Leone and the Abolition of the West African Slave Trade
Journal article by Tara Helfman; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, 2006
Subjects: Courts of special jurisdiction--Social aspects, Crimes against humanity--Laws, regulations and rules, Slave trade--Laws, regulations and rules
...recaptives according to his own lights. They were Captain Edward Columbine, Lieutenant Robert Bones, and Lieutenant-Colonel William Maxwell...supra note 26, at 29. Macaulay was governor of Sierra Leone in 1796 while it was still under the control of the Sierra Leone...
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The Importance of Talk to Midcareer Women's Development: A Collaborative Inquiry
Journal article by Teresa J. Carter; The Journal of Business Communication, Vol. 39, 2002
Subjects: Management--Communication systems, Professional education of women--Analysis, Working women--Practice
...J., Shapiro, P. (1992). Women, mentors, and success. New York: Fawcett Columbine. Jordan, J. V. (1997). A relational perspective for understanding womens development. In J. V. Jordan (Ed.), Womens growth in diversity: More writings from the Stone...


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The Exhibition in Retrospect
Magazine article by Bert Kraght, Margaret Kraght; PSA Journal, Vol. 60, December 1994
Subjects: Photographic Society of America--Exhibitions, Photography--Exhibitions
...conflict, its gratifying to see this coming-together in an activity we all enjoy. To each and every entrant...Calliope Hummingbird at Flower" Heeney Award--Botany Valerie Flack, "Wild Columbine Duo" Kessler Award--Ornithological Wildlife William...


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A Natural with Nature
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), May 25, 2009
...it," he says. He did more than take botany through LCC. He also went through the apprenticeship program at Eugenes Columbine School of Botanical Studies, a two-year intensive classroom and field training in medicinal herbs. He eventually moved...
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Dutch Artists' Flower Power: Exhibit Shows Its Blossoming in 17th-Century Paintings
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, May 8, 1999
...yellow-red tulip, pansy, columbine and yellow crocus. We...painted this tiny gem in 1612. Titled "Still Life...Gallery of Arts show, "From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art." The exhibition is the latest in the gallerys superlative...


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Columbine , in Botany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COLUMBINE , in botany kol mbin, any plant of the genus Aquilegia, temperate-zone...source of many cultivars some double and of various soft colors. Columbine is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Ranunculales...


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