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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Columbine in North America is the name of a plant defined with Aquilegia canadensis in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Aquilegia canadensis var. latiuscula (Greene) Munz (among others).

2) Columbine is also identified with Aquilegia vulgaris It has the synonym Aquilegia vulgaris Richardson (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
· Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1898)
· Flora Japonica (Thunberg) (1784)
· Contributions from the United States National Herbarium (1918)
· Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden (1899)
· Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1914)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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