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COLUMBINE
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Columbine is the common name for the genus Aquilegia, showy, flowering perennials belonging to the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. Columbines are valued for their dainty flowers of many colors, usually with the petals extending backward to form hollow tubes called spurs. The common European columbine, A. vulgaris, the source of numerous horticultural varieties and wild plants, reaches about 60 cm (2 ft) in height and bears drooping blue, purple, pink, or white flowers.
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