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Aquilegia

Index Aquilegia

Aquilegia (common names: granny's bonnet, columbine) is a genus of about 60–70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals Puzey, J.R., Gerbode, S.J., Hodges, S.A., Kramer, E.M., Mahadevan, L. (2011) Evolution of Aquilegia spur length diversity through changes in cell anisotropy. [1]

78 relations: Aconitum, Actaea (plant), Acute toxicity, Adaptation, Aquilegia barbaricina, Aquilegia bertolonii, Aquilegia brevistyla, Aquilegia canadensis, Aquilegia chrysantha, Aquilegia coerulea, Aquilegia elegantula, Aquilegia eximia, Aquilegia flabellata, Aquilegia flavescens, Aquilegia formosa, Aquilegia fragrans, Aquilegia grahamii, Aquilegia grata, Aquilegia laramiensis, Aquilegia longissima, Aquilegia nigricans, Aquilegia nuragica, Aquilegia pubescens, Aquilegia pyrenaica, Aquilegia saximontana, Aquilegia vulgaris, Asa Gray, Award of Garden Merit, Biennial plant, Bombus hortorum, Cabbage moth, Carl Linnaeus, Caterpillar, Colorado, Columbine cup, Columbine, Colorado, Condiment, Dot moth, Engrailed (moth), Evolution, Flora Europaea, Floral emblem, Flower, Follicle (fruit), Fruit, Gastroenteritis, Genetics, Genus, Geometer moth, Google Books, ..., Hardiness (plants), Hardiness zone, Heart, Killay, Swansea, Lepidoptera, Meadow, Mouse moth, Native Americans in the United States, Noctuidae, Nora Barlow, Palpitations, Papaipema leucostigma, Peptic ulcer disease, Perennial plant, Peter H. Raven, Plant propagation, Pollination syndrome, Pollinator, Reproductive isolation, Royal Horticultural Society, Speciation, Species, Sphingidae, Spur (botany), Swansea, Toxin, United States Department of Agriculture, Woodland. Expand index (28 more) »

Aconitum

Aconitum, commonly known as aconite, monkshood, wolf's bane, leopard's bane, mousebane, women's bane, devil's helmet, queen of poisons, or blue rocket, is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.

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Actaea (plant)

Actaea, commonly called baneberry, bugbane and cohosh, is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae, native to subtropical, temperate and subartic regions of the Europe, Asia and North America.

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Acute toxicity

Acute toxicity describes the adverse effects of a substance that result either from a single exposure or from multiple exposures in a short period of time (usually less than 24 hours).

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Adaptation

In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.

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Aquilegia barbaricina

Aquilegia barbaricina (also called barbaricina columbine) is a species of plant in the Ranunculaceae family.

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Aquilegia bertolonii

Aquilegia bertolonii, common name Bertoloni columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Southern France and Italy.

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Aquilegia brevistyla

Aquilegia brevistyla is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name smallflower columbine.

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Aquilegia canadensis

Aquilegia canadensis (Canadian or Canada columbine, eastern red columbine, wild columbine) is an herbaceous perennial native to woodland and rocky slopes in eastern North America, prized for its red and yellow flowers.

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Aquilegia chrysantha

Aquilegia chrysantha, the golden columbine, is a perennial herbaceous plant native to the southwestern United States from extreme southern Utah to Texas and northwestern Mexico.

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Aquilegia coerulea

Aquilegia coerulea is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona.

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Aquilegia elegantula

Aquilegia elegantula is a species of columbine known by the common name western red columbine.

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Aquilegia eximia

Aquilegia eximia is a species of columbine known by the common names serpentine columbine or Van Houtte's columbine.

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Aquilegia flabellata

Aquilegia flabellata, common name fan columbine or dwarf columbine, is a species of flowering perennial plant in the genus Aquilegia (columbine), of the family Ranunculaceae.

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Aquilegia flavescens

Aquilegia flavescens, the yellow columbine, is a wildflower native to mountain meadows, open woods, and alpine slopes of the Rocky Mountains from Utah north to British Columbia and Alberta.

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Aquilegia formosa

Aquilegia formosa, the crimson columbine, western columbine, or (ambiguously) "red columbine", is a common and attractive wildflower native to western North America, from Alaska to Baja California, and eastward to Montana and Wyoming.

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Aquilegia fragrans

Aquilegia fragrans, the fragrant columbine of sweet-scented columbine, is a species of columbine belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.

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Aquilegia grahamii

Aquilegia grahamii is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name Graham's columbine.

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Aquilegia grata

Aquilegia grata is a species of Aquilegia native to Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia.

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Aquilegia laramiensis

Aquilegia laramiensis is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common name Laramie columbine.

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Aquilegia longissima

Aquilegia longissima, the long-spur columbine, is a rare perennial herb that is native to northern Mexico, Trans-Pecos Texas and southern Arizona.

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Aquilegia nigricans

Aquilegia nigricans, the Bulgarian columbine, is a species of columbine that is found in the mountainous regions of Austria, the Balkans, Greece, Italy and Ukraine.

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Aquilegia nuragica

Aquilegia nuragica, commonly called Nuragica columbine, is a species of plant in the Ranunculaceae family.

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Aquilegia pubescens

Aquilegia pubescens is a high-altitude species of columbine known by the common names Sierra columbine, alpine columbine and Coville's columbine.

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Aquilegia pyrenaica

Aquilegia pyrenaica, common name Pyrenean columbine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae.

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Aquilegia saximontana

Aquilegia saximontana, the Rocky Mountain columbine, alpine dwarf columbine, dwarf blue columbine, or alpine columbine, is a perennial plant that comes from the Ranunculaceae (buttercup) family.

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Aquilegia vulgaris

Aquilegia vulgaris (European columbine, common columbine, granny's nightcap, granny's bonnet) is a species of columbine native to Europe.

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Asa Gray

Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century.

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Award of Garden Merit

The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).

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Biennial plant

A biennial plant is a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its biological lifecycle.

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Bombus hortorum

The garden bumblebee or small garden bumblebee, Bombus hortorum, is a species of bumblebee found in most of Europe north to 70°N, as well as parts of Asia and New Zealand.

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Cabbage moth

Note: the small white species of butterfly is commonly called a "cabbage moth" in North America. Mamestra brassicae, or the cabbage moth, is primarily known as a pest that is responsible for severe crop damage of a wide variety of plants species.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Caterpillar

Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Columbine cup

A columbine cup (German: Ackleibecher) is a silver goblet in the shape of a columbine flower (Aquilegia vulgaris).

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Columbine, Colorado

Columbine is a census-designated place (CDP) in Arapahoe and Jefferson counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Condiment

A condiment is a spice, sauce, or preparation that is added to food to impart a particular flavor, to enhance its flavor, or in some cultures, to complement the dish.

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Dot moth

Melanchra persicariae, the dot moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

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Engrailed (moth)

The engrailed and small engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia) are moths of the family Geometridae found from the British Isles through Central and Eastern Europe to the Russian Far East and Kazakhstan.

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Flora Europaea

The Flora Europaea is a 5-volume encyclopedia of plants, published between 1964 and 1993 by Cambridge University Press.

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Floral emblem

In a number of countries, plants have been chosen as symbols to represent specific geographic areas.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Follicle (fruit)

In botany, a follicle is a dry unilocular fruit formed from one carpel, containing two or more seeds.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Gastroenteritis

Gastroenteritis, also known as infectious diarrhea, is inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract -- the stomach and small intestine.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Geometer moth

The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Hardiness (plants)

Hardiness of plants describes their ability to survive adverse growing conditions.

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Hardiness zone

A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined to encompass a certain range of climatic conditions relevant to plant growth and survival.

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Heart

The heart is a muscular organ in most animals, which pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system.

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Killay, Swansea

Killay (Cilâ) is the name of a suburb and local government community in Swansea, Wales.

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Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is an order of insects that includes butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans).

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Meadow

A meadow is a field habitat vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants (grassland).

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Mouse moth

The mouse moth (Amphipyra tragopoginis) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Noctuidae

The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, is the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of its clades are constantly changing, along with the other families of Noctuoidea.

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Nora Barlow

Emma Nora Barlow, Lady Barlow (née Darwin; 22 December 1885 – 29 May 1989), was the granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin.

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Palpitations

Palpitations are the perceived abnormality of the heartbeat characterized by awareness of cardiac muscle contractions in the chest: hard, fast and/or irregular beats.

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Papaipema leucostigma

Papaipema leucostigma, the columbine borer, is a species of moth described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1841 and found in eastern North America.

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Peptic ulcer disease

Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) is a break in the lining of the stomach, first part of the small intestine or occasionally the lower esophagus.

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Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Peter H. Raven

Peter Hamilton Raven FMLS (born June 13, 1936) is an American botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Plant propagation

Plant propagation is the process of creating new plants from a variety of sources: seeds, cuttings and other plant parts.

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Pollination syndrome

Pollination syndromes are suites of flower traits that have evolved in response to natural selection imposed by different pollen vectors, which can be abiotic (wind and water) or biotic, such as birds, bees, flies, and so forth.

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Pollinator

A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower.

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Reproductive isolation

The mechanisms of reproductive isolation are a collection of evolutionary mechanisms, behaviors and physiological processes critical for speciation.

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Royal Horticultural Society

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.

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Speciation

Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Sphingidae

The Sphingidae are a family of moths (Lepidoptera), commonly known as hawk moths, sphinx moths, and hornworms; it includes about 1,450 species.

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Spur (botany)

The botanical term “spur” is given to outgrowths of tissue on different plant organs.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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Toxin

A toxin (from toxikon) is a poisonous substance produced within living cells or organisms; synthetic toxicants created by artificial processes are thus excluded.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

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Woodland

Woodland, is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquilegia

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