Celebrating Wildflowers - Beauty of It All - Red Columbines

USDA Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers

[skip to page content] [skip to page navigation]

	Aquilegia Express: Red Columbines The prominent red elfin flowers of columbines herald the coming of the spring wildflower season and the return of their pollinators, hummingbirds. These welcoming plants serve as the first of the wildflowers to provide a meal to our native hummingbirds. The nectar of the red flowered columbines provides a hummingbird with high sugar content and necessary amino acids. The nectar’s sugar content is twice that of all the other columbines native to North America. All eight red-flowered columbines may be found growing on our national forests with seven in the west and one in the east. Aquilegia canadensis, red columbine Aquilegia desertorum, desert columbine Aquilegia elegantula, western red columbine Aquilegia eximia, Van Houtte’s columbine Aquilegia formosa, western columbine Aquilegia grahamii, Graham’s columbine Aquilegia shockleyi, Schockley’s columbine Aquilegia triternata, barrel columbine Final Stop! This is the last stop of the *Aquilegia Express*. We hope you enjoyed the "ride" and the magnificient columbines!
Forest Service Home Celebrating Wildflowers Home About Us Contact Us News & Events Awards News Archives Regions Alaska Eastern Intermountain Northern Pacific Northwest Pacific Southwest Rocky Mountain Southern Southwestern Just For Kids Activities Coloring Pages Color Wildflowers Color of Flowers Coloring Books Noxious Weeds Vocabulary Word Search Teacher Resources Pollinators What is Pollination? Plant Strategies Visual Cues Scent Food Mimicry Entrapment Birds and Bees Syndromes Animal Pollination Insect Basics Pollinator of the Month Fact Sheets Environmental Benefits Cultural Importance Friendly Practices Gardening Native Gardening Hardiness Zones Basic Instructions Native Alternatives Genetic Considerations Landscape for Wildlife No-No Plants! Native Plant Materials What Are? Why Use? Policy and Authorities Care About Genetics? Right Plant Materials Gene Conservation Monitoring & Research Species Selection Collecting Seed Process & Test Seed Seed & Nursery Stock Using Native Plants NPM Reports Citizen Scientists Wildflower Ethics Collection Permits Invasive Plants Ethnobotany Food Dyes Fibers Gums Latex Oils Resins Soaps Tannins Waxes Medicinal Botany Plants of Mind & Spirit Wild Crop Progenitors Rare Plants What is a Rare Plant? Why Are Some Rare? Are All Endangered? How Many? Conservation Laws & Regulations Success Stories How Can I Help? Rare Plant Profiles Resources Interesting Plants Lichens What Are Lichens? What Lichens Are Not Importance Biology Structure Growth Forms Reproduction Habitat Identification Did You Know? Photo Gallery Crustose Lichens Foliose Lichens Fruticose Lichens Viewing Areas Glossary Links & Resources Mycotrophic Plants What are they? Whence They Came Allotropa virgata Hemitomes congestum Monotropa hypopitys Monotropa uniflora Monotropsis odorata Pityopus californica Pleuricospora fimbriolata Pterospora andromedea Sarcodes sanguinea Unique Communities Fading Gold How Aspens Grow Aspen Ecology Aspen Decline Managing Aspen Fall Colors Flowers in the Groves Basque Carvings More Information Serpentines Geology Adaptations Center of Diversity, Endemism, & Rarity Endemics Photo Gallery Rare Plants Plant Communities Darlingtonia Wetlands Foxtail Pine Subalpine Woodland Jeffrey Pine Savanna Jeffrey Pine Shrubland Montane Mixed Conifer Forest Port-Orford-Cedar Rock Outcrops Serpentine Alpine Serpentine Barrens Serpentine Meadows Western White Pine Subalpine Woodland Conservation More Information Special Features Beauty of It All Columbines Natural History Birds and Bees Columbine Flower Blue Columbines Yellow Columbines Red Columbines Native Irises The Iris Flower Blue Flag Dwarf Woodland Louisiana Pacific Coast Slipper Orchids Books We Use Alaska California Great Plains Intermountain West Midwest Northeast Pacific Northwest Rocky Mountains South Southwest General Plant of the Week Posters Wallpapers Links U.S. Forest Service Rangeland Management Botany Program 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Mailstop Code: 1103 Washington DC 20250-1103
	NOTE: PDF format links require the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
top	Disclaimers \| FOIA \| Privacy Policy \| Quality of Information \| Photo Credits & Use

Location: http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/beauty/columbines/red.shtml
Last modified: Tuesday, 11-May-2010 14:53:48 EDT