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Aquilegia coerulea
North American species of columbine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the flower. For the town, see Columbine, Colorado. For the school shooting, see Columbine High School massacre.
Aquilegia coerulea, the Colorado columbine, Rocky Mountain columbine, or blue columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to the Rocky Mountains and some of the surrounding states of the western United States. It is the state flower of Colorado. The Latin specific name coerulea (or caerulea) means "sky blue".
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Ranunculales |
Family: | Ranunculaceae |
Genus: | Aquilegia |
Species: | A. coerulea |
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