From Blue to Purple 



far more interested to find that, usually, beneath each leaf fW 



fifta?" if there - « SiMS 5V3SS 



European, or Common Garden, Columbine 



(Aquikgia vulgaris) Crowfoot family 



/Wr— Showy, blue, purple, or white, i« to 2 in broad or 

 about as broad as long ; spurs stout and strongly inched 



Eastern and Middle Stat 

 Flowering Season — May — July 



/>w j zj 7- "-• *•»"*.* wi piain resemDimg wi d couml- 



Preferred Habitat -Escaped from gardens to woods and fie d 

 _ Eastern and Middle States. Native of Europe. 



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A heavier less graceful flower than either the wild red and 

 yellow columbine or the exquisite, long-spurred bluTand whfte 

 speces {A. ccerulea) of the Rocky Mountain regio. ? nev t hd 



this European immigrant, now making itself at home he V 



wellT? a t ddltl ° n { ?r 1 ' n u° riL H ™ insectsTo re h he 

 well of nectar secreted in the tip of its incurved, hooked snur ? 



h iv al de°v f f' le H 3ng " Hpp 5! beeS ' h " ge bumbIe -beS whose' ton^el 



have developed as rapidly as the flower, are able to drain .1 

 Humming-birds, partial to red flowers, fertilize the wild colum- 

 bine, but let this one alone. Muller watched a female bum e ve 

 making several vain attempts to sip this blue one. Soon he 1 

 ant idea of biting a hole through each spur flashed hrough her 

 1 le brain, and the first experiment proving delightftilly succesl' 

 ful, she proceeded to bite holes through other flowers without first 

 trying to suck them. Apparently she satisfied her feminine cSS 

 science with the reflection that the flower which BK 

 difficult for its benefactors deserved no better treatment 



Field, or Branched, Larkspur; Knight's-spur 

 Lark-heei 



(Delphinium Consolida) Crowfoot family 



ue to pinkish and whitish, i to i % in. Ion 

 stems, and scattered along spreading b 



it sepals, the rear one prolonged into lor.-,, 



curving spur; 2 petals, united. Stem : 1 to 2% ft hieh 



Leaves; Divided into very finely cut linear segments! 



^W,-Blue to pinkish and whitish, 1 to 1 ^ in. Ion-, hung on 

 slender stems and scattered along spreading branches; 5 

 petal-like sepals, the rear one prolonged into long, slender 



