Ideas For Columbine Flower Anatomy 8+
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columbine flower anatomy. Wild Columbine is a native herbaceous perennial that is found in woodland habitats in shade to part shade. Grows in moist open to partly shaded areas from coastline to subalpine meadows. Native to North America.
Feb 24 2015 Sepals often appear as green leaves but may also be brilliantly colored they are the blue structures of the Colorado blue columbine or appear identical to petals such as in white marsh marigold. Across 5 cm with straight spurs and bushy golden stamens. Columbine will germinate best if sown in seed trays or pots and chilled refrigerated at 40 degrees F for 3 to 4 weeks.
Little Lanterns is about 10 inches tall with blue-green foliage. Columbine may be grown from seed sown early indoors and transplanted outside after frost or sown directly in the garden or grown from potted plants. Spacing for both seeds and plants should be anywhere from 1 to 2 feet.
The deeply lobed leaves are attractive and the red and yellow flowers mature in early spring and last about a month. Very attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies. The leaflets of the compound leaves are usually rounded and notched.
Columbines are distinctive for their five-petaled flowers that have long backward-extending spurs as pouchlike extensions of the petals which contain nectar. With tubes that long pollination by insects is mostly the work of those with long proboscises such as the hawk moth. Sepals provide protection to inner flower structures during bud formation and during storms or at night when the flowers of some species will close.
Eastern red columbine Aquilegia canadensis Has unique elongated hollow tubes inside the flower that point upwards. Sowing Columbine Seed Indoors. This plant has no children Legal Status.