columbine
Colorado state flower
Columbine is a flowering plant with distinctive spurred petals, common in gardens and mountain meadows.
The flowers have an unusual shape—five petals with backward-projecting spurs—often in blue, purple, pink, or white.
Wild columbine grew along the rocky trail.
The name comes from a Latin word for dove, which the flower supposedly resembles. (Capitalized Columbine refers to a stock character in commedia dell'arte, or to the 1999 school shooting in Colorado.)
Colored bloom segments
- perennialRecurring each year
- nectarFloral sugar water
- blossomFlower on fruit tree
- floralOf or like blooms
stamen · pistil · blooming · anther · sepals · spurs · pollination · gardening
Grassy field for grazing
- woodlandForested land area
- rockyCovered with stones
- alpineOf high elevations
- nativeOriginating from a place
wildflower · habitat · forest · naturalized · hillside · streambank · shaded · mountainous
Discharging a weapon
- LittletonTown with diminutive name
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- 1999Final twentieth-century year
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
grief · mourning · victims · survivors · trauma · remembrance · school safety · gun control
petals
Colored bloom segments
floral · stamen · pistil · blooming · anther · sepals · spurs · pollination · gardening · horticulture
meadow
Grassy field for grazing
native · wildflower · habitat · forest · naturalized · hillside · streambank · shaded · mountainous · understory
shooting
Discharging a weapon
- LittletonTown with diminutive name
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- 1999Final twentieth-century year
memorial · grief · mourning · victims · survivors · trauma · remembrance · school safety · gun control · Colorado
dovelike
Gentle and pure
meek · mild · pure · tender · guileless · demure · soft · serene · tranquil · unassuming
aquiline
Resembling an eagle
feline · lupine · porcine · cervine · corvine · serpentine · asinine · caprine · vulpine · leonine
- Columbines
- flowersroses, flower, tulips, daisies, lilies
- American PlantsAmerican elm, aster, azalea, bluebonnets, bluebonnet
- clownsclown, bozo, hobo clown, rodeo clown, party clown
- flower gardendaisy, tulip, rose, lily, pansy
- garden flowersdaisy, tulip, daffodil, sunflower, lily
columbinedaisy
Small white-petaled bloom
sunflower · aster · black-eyed Susan · coneflower · zinnia