Aquilegia coerulea
North American species of columbine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 blue columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to the Rocky Mountains, USA. Aquilegia coerulea is the state flower of Colorado.[2]
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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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The Latin specific name coerulea (or caerulea) means "sky blue".[3]
Sequencing of the genome of this species has advanced the study of the evolution of basal eudicots.[4][5]